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    Arctic Rising: A Novel

    By Tobias S. Buckell

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    Global warming has transformed the Earth, and it's about to get even hotter. The Arctic Ice Cap has all but melted, and the international community is racing desperately to claim the massive amounts of oil beneath the newly accessible ocean.

    Enter the Gaia Corporation. Its two founders have come up with a plan to roll back global warming. Thousands of tiny mirrors floating in the air can create a giant sunshade, capable of redirecting heat and cooling the earth's surface. They plan to terraform Earth to save it from itself—but in doing so, they have created a superweapon the likes of which the world has never seen.

    Anika Duncan is an airship pilot for the underfunded United Nations Polar Guard. She's intent on capturing a smuggled nuclear weapon that has made it into the Polar Circle and bringing the smugglers to justice.

    Anika finds herself caught up in a plot by a cabal of military agencies and corporations who want Gaia Corporation stopped. But when Gaia Corp loses control of their superweapon, it will be Anika who has to decide the future of the world. The nuclear weapon she has risked her life to find is the only thing that can stop the floating sunshade after it falls into the wrong hands.


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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateFeb 28, 2012
    ISBN9781429987431
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    Arctic Rising: A Novel
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    Tobias S. Buckell

    Called “violent, poetic, and compulsively readable” by Maclean’s, science fiction author Tobias S. Buckell is a New York Times bestselling writer born in the Caribbean. He grew up in Grenada and spent time in the British and US Virgin Islands, and these places influence much of his work. His Xenowealth series begins with Crystal Rain. Along with other stand-alone novels and his more than fifty stories, Tobias’s works have been translated into eighteen different languages. He has been nominated for such awards as the Hugo, Nebula, Prometheus, and John W. Campbell Award for Best New Science Fiction Author. His latest original novels are Hurricane Fever, a follow-up to the successful Arctic Rising, which NPR says will “give you the shivers,” and the acclaimed Halo: Envoy. He currently lives in Ohio, with his wife, twin daughters, and a pair of dogs. He can be found online at TobiasBuckell.com.

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    • 2/5
      Hard going - don't try to read it again!
    • 2/5
      Terrible editing!
    • 3/5
      Climate change meets action adventure! After years working in war zones, Anika Duncan is happy to have found a peaceful job piloting airships for the UN. Then her ship is shot down while patrolling arctic waters, and she realizes it's part of a conspiracy with global consequences.

      The action in this is top-notch: easy to follow but inventive and absolutely thrilling. Anika is a great, unique character, with a strong moral center and a lot of guts. And the plot itself is a lot of fun, with twists and turns and cool world-building that builds up to an explosive climax (or four). There's a little too much monologuing during some of the action scenes, but overall this was a load of fun to read.
    • 2/5
      I think it's fair to say that this just wasn't my cup of tea, despite its potential, and i gave up about halfway in. Set in a post-global warming future where the polar caps have melted, Arctic Rising includes many of the incredibly interesting geopolitical details that are fun to work with as a mind game. The main character was neat...but the story itself lacked the depth I've come to expect from a sci-fi novel, and was more just a typical thriller set in an interesting setting. The pacing also felt a bit strange, like the author was skimming in an attempt to create a sense of fast pacing, but fell short. Ah well, to each his own.
    • 2/5
      A very competent thriller set in a near future Northern Hemisphere made made almost ice-free by global warming.
    • 3/5
      Can't really add too much to what others have said. Although it was a real treat to have a female protagonist (who happens to be gay and of color, no less!), and to have other women in strong supporting roles, I felt oddly detached from all of the characters. Maybe if we had learned more about Anika's background or history, it would have meant more when she was in peril--not sure.

      Other pluses: the Arctic setting, which the author DID do a great job of portraying, and the possible geopolitical consequences of the polar icecaps melting. Well done. Minor nitpicks: typos here and there, and Roo's inconsistent patois.

      I'd recommend this one for a beach or airplane trip. It's fairly enjoyable while reading, but I'm not sure it will stick with me now that I'm done.
    • 3/5
      Frantic story line really kept the pages turning. Better than I expected.
    • 4/5
      Anika is a UN pilot inspecting ships in the now ice-free Arctic when she and her partner are shot down by someone carrying something that trips her radioactivity detector. Trying to solve the mystery puts her even more in danger and puts her in the path of those trying to turn climate change into localized economic benefit. Decent speculative fiction + adventure.
    • 4/5
      A city clung to the remains of the polar ice cap, initially a sargasso of decommissioned floating drill rigs, tankers, and supercarriers, the metal infection had spread out across the ice when retired ice island experts began blowing snow out on the cap to thicken it, inserting metal poles to help further cool the ice, and moving out onto it.Thule was initially an over-polar trade port. And then it became a town. And then a city. All in thirty years.Out in the international waters, peopled with immigrants from all over the entire world, it had somehow, despite everyone's best efforts, turned itself into a country.It is boom-time in the Arctic in near future techo-thriller, as global warming has left most of Arctic ice-free, opening up the Northwest Passage up to shipping and leading to the region becoming a centre of mining, drilling, industry and trade. Anika Duncan is a Nigerian airship pilot working for the United Nations Polar Guard, monitoring the shipping lanes for signs of pollution and smuggling. For the first two-thirds of the book I was enjoying it quite a lot, as Anika got herself into more and more trouble as she investigated the ship that shot down her airship leading to the death of her co-pilot. But towards the end it all seemed to get a bit chaotic as Anika and Roo kept changing tack as they found out more about what was actually going on. I didn't warm to Anika at all. Supposedly she likes and fancies Vy, who went well out of her way to help her in her quest, but when someone asks Anika not to hurt Vy, she dismisses it immediately with the thought that Vy has volunteered to help her. I didn't really believe that Vy would risk her own life, her friends' lives and her borderline criminal business empire to help someone who was an acquaintance or casual friend at most, even if she did fancy her, and I didn't really believe that Anika was being genuine about wanting to have a relationship with Vy, And I know it's petty and definitely my issue, but it irritated me that Violet spellt her nickname with a 'y' rather than an 'i'.
    • 2/5
      Set in the near future where global warming has melted the Arctic ice cap and a new superpower has arisen due to access to previously inaccessible resources, Arctic Rising is a book that I should, in theory, like. It was not to be. The first clue I should have had was the terrible editing. This can make or break a book, and it definitely broke this one. The grammatical errors aside, there were times when it seemed that Buckell lost his plot and had to write himself out of a corner. And the abrupt ending did the book no favors, either. If it was a set up for a sequel, it was a piss-poor one, and I will not pick it up, since none of the characters are memorable enough to warrant another read.
    • 3/5
      I picked up Tobias Buckell’s book after seeing two different people on Twitter mention it. I thought the setting of Buckell’s Arctic Rising (published by Tor) was fantastic. The book takes place in a future where, thanks to the almost-completely-melted North Pole, there has been enough of a climate shift that shorelines, shipping routes and political boundaries have changed.Over the course of a couple of decades, the land uninhabited in our 2012 world near the polar circle becomes the “new” temperate zone, allowing cities to pop up and all of the minerals and once-unreachable natural resources have now made folks north of the U.S. very important and wealthy.It does not take long for the story to crank up as a global security patrol is shot out of the sky. The rest of the story follows the security pilot as she tries to stay alive, avenge her dead partner and figure out the conspiracy behind it all. A Google-ish type company, with all the “do no evil”, political pull and society-building, plays a major role in all of it as extremists try and use good technology for bad.The setting, political backdrop and future technology made the book worthwhile for me, even if the plot and story telling were lacking a little. Don’t get me wrong, it is written to keep you turning pages, but it’s not exactly a “I can’t imagine how this ends” story. The stereotypical ending runs its course as it should and might feel like a political statement to some. But it certainly doesn’t get in the way of the fun ride along the way.As a side note: the publisher places it in a newly named sub-genre called Spi-Fi, which I kind of like. I would look for more books under this moniker. Here’s to hoping Spi-Fi shelf-talkers start showing up alongside Sci-Fi.I think Arctic Rising would be a great Summer read as it clips along fast and is set up in the arctic, which may help you cool off some while out on the beach. I give it 3 out of 5 stars.
    • 4/5
      In a future in which the Arctic Ocean is mostly liquid, a young biracial Nigerian finds herself in the middle of a complex political conspiracy. Buckell has produced an excellent piece of political SF, with some nice Caribbean in-jokes (a minor character whose name is pronounced 'Braffit' but spelled 'Brauthwaite' for example, which should cause Bajans and Grenadians to take notice).