ANTARCTIC FICTION BIBLIOGRAPHY
A Continuation of Fauno CordesÕ
ŌTekeli-liĶ
Compiled by Valmar Kurol (mtl.ant.soc@sympatico.ca)
Antarctic-themed
novels have been appearing at an increased pace in recent years, aided by the
growth of Internet-based self-publishing print houses and E-publishing. There is growing market acceptance of
affordable hand-held electronic readers (such as Kindle and iPad) provided by
distributors with an ever-increasing catalogues (Amazon and Apple). Many of these electronic books may
never see the light of day in old-fashioned hard copy, forcing adaptation of
this new medium by interested readers.
One noticeable aspect of the self-published books is the amount of
grammatical and spelling errors, which speaks highly of the need for a good
editor and at least a spell-checker, whatever the publication medium.
The
entries in the Antarctic Fiction Bibliography are first listed by year published and then alphabetically
within that year, with a general story description. One of the difficulties of classifying a book as Antarctic
fiction is the definition of the degree to which it is should be about
Antarctica or to the extent that the plot occurs in Antarctica. This list will include those books
where at least a chapter or two is about Antarctica but does not attempt any
Antarctic content rating scale.
The
following people have kindly helped in providing commentary and listings. Their own personal or professional Web
sites, with related and additional fiction listing information, are shown
below:
Elizabeth
Leane (www.utas.edu.au/english/Representations_of_Antarctica/)
Laura
Kay (www.phys.barnard.edu/~kay/polar/)
Jeff
Rubin
Deirdre
and David Stam
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Boss, J. D. Deception Island. Baltimore: PublishAmerica, 2011.
An evolutionary anthropologist is summoned by her forensic
pathologist aunt from an assignment in Afghanistan to the Antarctic Peninsula,
where an alien body has just been found.
This leads to the possibility of romance with one of her associates,
nasty encounters in a former underground Nazi base where fanatics are trying to
develop a pure Aryan race with a strain of virus. There are also portals to a pure, original Aryan world, with
a choice of whether to stay or leave.
Fredrick, M. J. Midnight Sun. Smashwords Edition. Kindle
Edition, 2011.
A one-night stand becomes a longer romance as the female chef on
an Antarctic cruise ship and the wayward, surfboarder black sheep son of the
ship-owning family unexpectedly find themselves together on the vessel. They have to save the ship from a
pirate attack and then survive a helicopter crash on the Antarctic Peninsula,
all the while developing their own relationship.
Good, Phillip. Confessions of a Gentleman Host. Kindle Edition,
2011.
A down-on-his-luck accountant/computer programmer loses his job,
takes dance lessons and becomes a gentleman dance host on ship cruises. His escapades include being a host on
two Antarctic Peninsula cruises.
Knippling, DeAnna. A Fly in Amber. www.wonderlandpress.com. Kindle Edition,
2011.
A short story about the tasting of 100-year-old Scotch that is
returned from one of Ernest ShackletonÕs Antarctic Expeditions, fom the point
of view of one of the two tasters.
Based on the real-life 2006 discovery of a crate of whisky from ShackletonÕs
1907-09 Nimrod Expedition.
Mertz, Jon. F. Prey. Kindle Edition, 2011.
A group of geological exploration scientists arrive at an
Antarctic base to do research but the base crew is nowhere to be found and
their own team members start to go missing. Encounters with an alien being lead them to an underground
world inside a mountain, which is really an alien space ship. The aliens are embarked on a demonic scheme
to crossbreed dinosaurs and humans.
Thompson, Stewart.
Frozen Memories. Kindle
Edition, undated, est. 2011.
Various individuals around the world are invited to Lake Vostok in
Antarctica where they begin to drill into the ice to determine the source of
puzzling transmissions. Vast
arrays of under-ice root-creatures, with the ability to hold vast memories of
human existence, are running out of nourishment. In exchange for planting their seed pods over the earth, the
creatures offer vast stores of information that will help people with their
daily lives.
Walker, A. J. Murder at McMurdo. Hurlford, (Scotland, U. K.):
LL-Publications. Kindle Edition, 2011.
A married scientist at McMurdo Station, Antarctica, whose wife is
also at the base, has a fling with another married researcher. Meanwhile, a scientist is murdered,
someone is arrested and the two lovers may have evidence that the real murderer
is on the loose. Will they have to
reveal their tryst in order to save the wrongly accused?
Weaver, Ian. Frozen in Time. Smashwords Edition. Kindle
Edition, 2011.
Harry, a British fighter pilot, crashes during a training exercise
and wakes up on a ship carrying out a secret mission on the Antarctic
Peninsula. At home, his wife and
friend become involved in the same plot, which involves terrorists and a
planned nuclear explosion on an Antarctic ice shelf. From a past experience, Harry has a secret ring which allows
him to travel back and forth in time and so he must save his wife, friends and
the world from nuclear destruction in the Antarctic.
Armstrong, Jennifer L. The Unlikely Association of Meg and
Harry. Free-Online-Novels.com, 2010.
Two recent high school graduates, one the restless Christian son
of a rich family and the other, a working-class girl who wants to become a policeman, join
forces to become private investigators.
Their third case, to locate a scientist whose mother is worried about
her sonÕs psychological state, takes them to the Russian Bellingshausen
scientific base on the Antarctic Peninsula and then to a fossil dig in the
Transantarctic Mountains. They
find their scientist and explore their own relationship.
Bledsoe, Lucy Jane. The Big Bang Symphony: A Novel of
Antarctica. Madison (U.S.A.): Terrace Books, 2010.
The lives of three women, a cook, a composer and a geologist,
working at AntarcticaÕs McMurdo and South Pole Stations, become entwined as
they each search for answers to personal and professional aspirations. The
author has been awarded two National Science Foundation Artists & Writers
in Antarctica fellowships.
Binkley, Paul David. Thawing Eden. Kindle Edition. 2010.
A leaf with special powers is found under the ice of Antarctica,
and an expedition is launched to further explore the origins of the plant. Rival researchers and the expedition
leader bring murder, deception, love intrigues and theories of the origin of
the planet to the mix. The Garden
of Eden is discovered, complete with snake and forbidden fruit.
Campbell, Scott Patrick. Tomorrow. www.createspace.com, 2010.
In the near future, two scientists drilling ice cores in
Antarctica find buried alien spacecraft buried deep in the ice. The nations of the world rush to get
their shares of the relics and unwittingly unleash havoc on the world. An over the top sci-fi adventure story
melts and trickles into a cosmic morality play.
Titus Oates of Robert ScottÕs ill-fated South Pole Expedition
walked out of the expedition tent into a storm and perished in 1912. A fact previously unknown, he was
actually taken from the past to the future in 2045 by scientists researching
time travel. The Edwardian OatesÕ
culture has a hard time adjusting to the culture of post-modern space-age life. Two early excerpts of this book were
published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact as May Be Some Time in April 2001 and as Tiptoe, on a Fence Post
in July-Aug 2002.
Cohen, Theodore Jerome. Frozen in Time: Murder at the Bottom of
the World. Bloomington: AuthorHouse, 2010.
Valuables are stolen during a Chilean earthquake and stored on a
supply vessel going to a Chilean Antarctic base. The thieves resort to murder to protect their loot and are
in turn killed by the captain of their ship.
Cohen, Theodore Jerome. Unfinished Business: Pursuit of an
Antarctic Killer, Book II of the Antarctic Murders Trilogy. Bloomington:
AuthorHouse, 2010.
In a continuation of CohenÕs Frozen In Time (Book I of three), two Chilean Navy
internal investigators play cat and mouse with the naval captain who they
believe murdered the two culprits of the hoist in Book I.
Cohen, Theodore Jerome. End Game: Irrational Acts, Tragic
Consequences. Bloomington: AuthorHouse, 2010.
In the final book of CohenÕs Antarctic trilogy, the murderous and
thieving Chilean Naval Captain of the first two books finally meets his match
in the two sleuthing internal Navy investigators introduced in Book II.
Conway, A. J. The Treaty. www.lulu.com,
2010.
A small group of refugees from a World War live in ice caves below
the Antarctic surface with a secret their leaders have tried to keep from them
and the outside world for years.
The group is finally discovered by the Russian military, which will stop
at nothing to eradicate them.
Curran, Tim. The Spawning – Book Two of the Hive Series.
Lake Orion (U.S.A.): Elder Signs Press, Inc., 2010.
In a sequel to CurranÕs 2005 book, Hive, Antarctic researchers at various sites
are brutally massacred by monsters directed by prehistoric forces, bent on a
resurrection and taking over the world.
Cussler, Clive, with Du Brul, Jack. The Silent Sea. New York:
G. P. PutnamÕs Sons (Penguin Group), 2010.
An elite force of private American commandos, working with the
U.S. government, tracks clues leading them to an ancient Chinese junk buried
off the coast of the Antarctic Peninsula.
Co-incidentally, Argentina has claimed this area in cahoots with China
and has developed a massive secret offshore oil drilling program that must now
be stopped.
Gagliani, William D. Icewall. Kindle Edition. 2010.
One of many short stories in Shadowplays, a collection of fantasy and thriller
tales by Gagliani. The two
technicians overwintering at an isolated Antarctic research camp become
antagonistic toward each other and one of them may have attempted to murder the
other. Previously published in Psychos, an anthology of horror stories edited by Robert Bloch and Martin H.
Greenberg (1997).
Gresh, Lois H., Blood and Ice. Lake Orion (U.S.A.): Elder Signs
Press, 2010.
A band of four alien nonoparticle life forms, based in Antarctica,
have mutated into bloodthirsty vampires since feasting on the members of
ScottÕs 1910-12 South Pole trek.
In 2015, in anticipation of the hatching of a new brood of aliens, the
vampires go on a rampage at the South Pole, with dire consequences for the
earthÕs future.
Haden, David. The Floaters of the Barrens. Burslem Books
(www.lulu.com), 2010.
This is a short story, subtitled ŌBeing a direct sequel to At the
Mountains of MadnessĶ, which appears in HadenÕs book of essays on H. P.
LovercraftÕs story about an Antarctic Expedition gone wrong: Ice Cores
– Essays on LovecraftÕs novella At the Mountains of Madness.
Hvet, Kristen Michelle. On Antarctica Naked. Kindle Edition,
2010.
From an anthology of very short stories, On Antarctica Naked and
Other Stories, known as
flash fiction. Includes this one
about an illness, which resembles an Antarctic experience.
Heller, Izzy. Death in McMurdo. Bloomington: AuthorHouse, 2010.
A young scientist and his wife, overwintering at McMurdo Station,
encounter marital problems and a violent death in a polar morality play, set
within a strong Jewish cultural framework.
Hickman, Jonathan, Eaglesham, Dale & Mounts, Paul,
Fantastic Four, New York: Marvel Worldwide, Issue # 576, April 2010.
The Fantastic Four enter AntarcticaÕs subterranean Lake Vostok,
looking for rogue scientists and discover three aquatic races living in the
Kingdom of Atlantis.
Hines, Chesley. Sixty-Four Degrees. Bloomington: AuthorHouse,
2010.
Two separate stories from the Arctic and Antarctic, with one
common participant. In the
Antarctic-based Sixty-Four South, an American
Antarctic research vessel is called to rescue its sister ship following a
collision with a glacier off the coast of Antarctica. The rescue turns into a larger incident with nuclear
overtones.
Johnson, Mat. Pym - A Novel. New York: Spiegel & Grau,
2010.
A tongue-in-cheek social/racial spoof, in which a small group of blacks
go to Antarctica under the guise of shipping ice back to America to make
drinking water. In reality, one of
them, a college professor, has acquired a manuscript that may confirm the
existence of the fictional Antarctic lands and beings described in Edgar Allan
PoeÕs 1837 seminal novella The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym.
They find the ancient beings described in the book, with unfortunate
results.
Lee, Tommie. Mulligan. Kindle Edition, 2010.
An international secret society erases peopleÕs memories to
protect its own activities. One of
the technicians in a futuristic Free Antarctic Republic in 2207 latches on to
their scheme and is pursued in chases across the continent, to silence him.
Loschiavo, Joe. Dry Ice. Kindle Edition, 2010.
A futuristic eco-political thriller that brings together a greedy
global corporation, an environmental investigator, his former flame and his
daughter, each with their own missions in the investigation of a mysterious
formation in Antarctica.
Lovelace, Merline. Deep Freeze. Don Mills (Canada): Harlequin
Books, 2010.
One of the three short stories in this romance book, Baby ItÕs
Cold Outside, all related
to cold climes. Mia discovers
stressful love after her Antarctic Peninsula tourist cruise ship hits an
iceberg and the passengers are taken to refuge at Palmer Station.
Mackenzie, Gordon. The True Story of the First Bicycle in the
Antarctic. Lexington (U.S.A.): www.CreateSpace.com, 2010.
A general contract worker at AntarcticaÕs McMurdo Station is
promoted as the sheriff, to investigate the theft of liquor from the BaseÕs
store and soon becomes embroiled in a murder investigation.
Robinson, Jeremy. The Last Hunter – Descent (Book I of
the Antarktos Saga). Kindle Edition, 2010.
The first child born in Antarctica in 1974 returns thirteen years
later and is forced to fight for his survival in an underground world of
ancient people and creatures with supernatural powers.
Thompson, Claire.
Polar Reaction. Macon (U.S.A.): Samhain Publishing, 2010.
Three male scientific researchers temporarily remain behind on an
Antarctic field station as the base is closing down for the season and endure a
blizzard, as their mutual affections begin to grow. Once airlifted out after the storm, their triangle romance
blooms fully, through sexually explicit descriptions.
Van Bokkem, Vianka. AntarcticaÕs Secrets: Scientists Conspiracy.
Kindle Edition, 2010.
A terrible, thankfully very short story for teens in which a young
female reporter hides in a helicopter that goes to Antarctica, in hopes of
investigating a rumoured cover-up in Antarctica.
Archer, Alex. Rogue Angel –
Polar Quest. Don Mills
(Canada): Worldwide Library (Harlequin Enterprises), 2009.
Archaeologist Annja Creed goes to Antarctica to help a colleague
who has found a prehistoric necklace.
She suspects everyone there, including the U. S. military, to be hiding
something.
Beck, Greig. Beneath the Dark Ice. Sydney: Macmillan, 2009.
A private U.S. airplane crashes into Antarctic ice, awakening
memories in primordial creatures beneath the surface. An American commando rescue team is sent in. Russians also have their separate
agenda and neither group knows what awaits them.
Boswell, Andrew. The Tournament at the End of the Earth.
www.lulu.com, 2009.
In a near-future, oil-depleted world, an Antarctic stadium has
been built as a proxy battlefield for countries at war to fight it out. An unknown terrorist has his own plans
for exploiting the continent.
Dixon, George. The Patent of Mann. Central Milton Keynes
(U.K.): AuthorHouse, 2009.
The investigation of a shipwreck in the Irish Sea leads a crack
team of investigators to an environmental conference at McMurdo Sound and oil
drilling in Antarctica.
Dring, Jacob R. Coldblooded. www.lulu.com, 2009.
The team at AntarcticaÕs Byrd Sub-C Station finds an alien space
projectile buried in the ice, without any occupants. A deadly alien arrives to look for its lost crewmember and
to do battle with the humans.
Eberhart, Dave. Rock of Ages. Kindle Edition, 2009.
In 2026, a deep-sea salvage operation off the Irish coast is
searching for two ships scuttled in the 1950s, reported to carry WWII nerve
gas. In one of the ships they
discover a part of a long-lost Mars mission aircraft from 2006, which had
discovered a buried object on the surface of Mars, but the mission was lost on
return to Earth. Elsewhere, an
investigative reporter and a crusading U.S. prosecutor join forces to
investigate an unscrupulous industrial magnate who is producing
ozone-destroying chemicals to pay for the cost of his search for a gene-based
Fountain of Youth. Their pursuit
takes them to the magnateÕs private Antarctic research base near Palmer Station
in the Antarctic Peninsula and to Lake Hoare in the Dry Valleys.
Forbes, Steve. Southern Cross. Charleston: www.booksurge.com,
2009.
A new title for ForbesÕ 1989 novel, False Cross.
A Russian military squad makes a surprise visit at an American Antarctic
base and each side has their own hidden agendas. A small group of the Americans
makes a brave and unbelievable journey over a horrendous glacier to try to
carry out their own mission.
Gorecki, Andrzej.
South of the 60th Parallel. BookSurge Publishing (U.S.A.),
2009.
Americans drilling in Antarctica hit an impenetrable layer deep
under the ice. An advanced race of
human aliens has been living underneath Antarctica for ages and their peaceful
existence is interrupted by the ensuing attempted invasion by the U.S.
military. In the meantime, San
Francisco TV host Ella McClure becomes the romantic interest of a mysterious
stranger, the leader of the aliens.
McDermott, Andy. The Covenant of Genesis. New York: Bantam
Books, 2009.
An archeologist and her fiance discover evidence of a
civilization predating the history of mankind, including an ancient city buried
in a subterranean lake in Antarctica.
The secret society, Covenant of Genesis, will take any means at its
disposal to stop these discoveries from becoming public knowledge.
McNeil, Jean. The Ice Lovers. Toronto: McArthur & Company,
2009.
In the near-future 2016, a writer travels to Antarctica to
research the death of a female scientist three years ago. She is forced to overwinter and
discovers a complicated story of the scientistÕs relationships while
experiencing her own interaction with a government official. The author spent 2005-06 in Antarctica
as the British Antarctic Survey/Arts Council of England International Fellow to
Antarctica.
Mundy, Robin. The Nature of Ice. Crows Nest (Australia): Allen
& Unwin, 2009.
The story of an Australian photographer working on a project at
Davis Station and the decline of her domestic marital relationship is told in
parallel with explorer Douglas MawsonÕs disastrous 1911-14 Antarctic Expedition
and through his unmailed letters to his sweetheart. The author has worked and overwintered in Antarctica.
Ogle, W. Dale. Tsunami: Beast of Antarctica. Shelbyville
(U.S.A.): Wasteland Press, 2009.
A new luxury cruise ship on her maiden voyage is toppled by a
giant tsunami caused by a breaking ice shelf. The few remaining people, too many for a single zodiac, must
plan how to survive.
Raymond, Midge. The Ecstatic Cry. Spokane and Cheney: Eastern
Washington University Press, 2009.
A short story in a collection of short fiction, Forgetting
English, by Midge
Raymond. A tourist cruise ship
visits two penguin researchers at a solitary Antarctic Peninsula field camp. One of them later encounters a
mysterious stranger from the ship, wandering in the water off the beach.
Rose-Innes, Louise. Antarctic Affair. Kindle Edition, 2009.
A recently engaged, London-based high society female features
writer is assigned to do a story on a rugged, individualistic adventure
photographer. They travel to the
Antarctic Peninsula on a research vessel for the story, she saves his life on
an iceberg, becomes accustomed to the outdoors world and romance follows.
Sampson, Jim. The Apocalypse Rising. Burleigh (Australia): Zeus
Publications, 2009.
Worldwide global warming has caused havoc over Antarctica. Two groups of scientists are caught in
the middle of new volcanic eruptions in the Ross Sea area. An American submarine and icebreaker
race through storms to rescue them, while a team of American scientists and the
military attempt to annihilate the volcanoes with atomic missiles.
Wynn, Earl S. Pink Carbide: Carbon Aria. Sonora (U.S.A.):
Thunderune Publishing, 2009.
In the near-distant future, the super powered, bionic Cylea
searches for her beginnings and goes to an old deserted Antarctic base for
clues.
Clarke, Isabella. White. YouWriteOn.com, 2008.
A short story included in a collection, Colours and Shades, written by Clarke. Alannah, a Londoner, has been doing a
lot of travelling to dull the pain of her sisterÕs suicide. After she slips on shore during an
Antarctic cruise, the shipÕs doctor dispenses psychological advice to help her
deal with her feelings of guilt.
Dionne, Karen. Freezing Point. New York: Jove Books, 2008.
Environmentalist tapping Antarctic ice for the worldÕs drinking
water and eco-terrorists both face the same danger from within the ice from
rats and pestilence.
Kalla, Daniel. Cold Plague. New York: Tor, 2008.
A private commercial drilling project to bring up pure,
therapeutic water from a subterranean Antarctic lake results in an escape of
deadly prions, which causes deaths in Europe.
Levine, Richard S. A Floccinaucinihilipilificatious Life. www.theopinionguy.com: Golden Acorn Press.
OGÕs Speculative Fiction, Issue #16, January 2008.
This online and print magazine has a very short story about
millibots discussing whether they are alive, as they rush to inspect a
defective furnace heating duct somewhere in Antarctica.
Marsh, Carole. The Mystery in Icy Antarctica. U.S.A.: Gallopade
International, 2008.
Part of MarshÕs junior books mystery series. A mystery-writing grandmother takes her
two grandchildren to Antarctica and they encounter their own mystery of missing
meteorites and penguins.
Robinson, Kevin Maurice. The Imaginator – an Unexpected
Discovery. www.lulu.com, 2008.
Two children accompany their archeologist father to a dig in
Antarctica where they uncover a stone, which
was the refuge of a young alien girl. She becomes their friend and teaches the children how to use
their imagination, which comes in handy when they have to escape villains who
want to capture the alien girl.
Smith, K. L. Polar Love. New York: Vantage Press, 2008.
Two American researchers on a scientific cruise at Deception
Island fall in love but must return to their separate lives after the
expedition is completed. They
manage to pick things up a few years later.
A time-shifting short story about a small group of contemporary
Antarctic researchers who think they encounter Robert ScottÕs expedition
members as they are returning from their fateful South Pole Expedition in 1912,
but are unable to communicate with them.
Some years later one of the researchers discovers an unpublished Scott
Expedition diary that mentions sightings by ScottÕs group of the modern
researchers, who were thought to be following Scott and were even reported to
have peered in their tent.
Valente, Catherynne M. A BuyerÕs Guide to Maps of Antarctica.
clarkesworldmagazine.com, Issue # 20, May 2008.
A very short story about Antarctic topographical maps, up for
auction, and the related stories of the two rival South American mapmakers who
drew them.
Bartels, P. J. Desert Ice. www.lulu.com, 2006.
A disgraced former supertanker captain and a glaciologist sign on
for a project to haul an iceberg from Antarctica to Kuwait but in mid stream
are interrupted by an Iraqi hit team.
Beach, R. R. The Number of Things. 130 Ink, 2006.
While going through a divorce, a man has recurring dreams about an
early 20th century expedition to Antarctica, which is marooned on a
subantarctic island. The events of
current reality and historical dream unexpectedly become merged through his
spaced-out wife.
Fearnley, Laurence. Degrees of Separation. Auckland: Penguin
Group, 2006.
The stories of three isolated people working out of McMurdo Sound,
Antarctica: a composer, a scientist and a communications operator. The author was part of New ZealandÕs
Artists and Writer to Antarctic Program in 2004.
Wilson, Colin. The Tomb of the Old Ones. Hayward (U.S.A.):
Chaosium, 2006.
Although this novella was written in 1999, it appears in print for
the first time in an anthology of Antarctic horror stories, The Antarktos
Cycle from Chaosium. Based on H. P. LovecraftÕs At the
Mountains of Madness,
with direct references to it, scientists continue the search for an ancient
civilization thought to be buried under AntarcticaÕs ice and mountains.
Bergse, Francis & Nathalie.
Mystre en Antarctique - Les Aventures de Buck Danny (# 51). Marcinelle (Belgium)/Paris: Dupuis, 2005. Also issued in English by Air Comics under the title Mystery
in the Antarctic – The Adventures of Buck Danny.
This is a voluminous Franco-Belgian comic book series started in
1947 about U.S. Navy pilots, created by Georges Troisfontaines, Victor Hubinon
& Jean-Michel Charlier. This
particular adventure takes them to the Antarctic to battle criminals who have
discovered a stash of buried Nazi gold in the Ice.
Wagner, Matt. Trinity: Batman/Superman/Wonder Woman. New York:
DC Comics, 2004.
This compendium brings together the three superheroes for the
first time in a story about a mad villain who wants to remake the world to his
own liking. One of his assistants
is Bizarro, a clunky Superman clone who has been kept in a dungeon deep below
AntarcticaÕs surface. The stories were originally published as three single
issues in 2003.
Macpherson, Helen. Colder Than Ice. Port Arthur (U.S.A.):
QuestBooks, 2004.
Two headstrong women on an Antarctic archaeological team that is
trying to locate traces of a lost expedition from a century ago find each other
and fall in love.
Lock, Norman. Three Short Metaphysical Fictions. www.cafeirreal.com:
Cafe Irreal, Issue #12, August 2004.
This is a webzine for fantastic fiction. The three related stories, entitled Unreal
Geography, The Cruelty
of Poetry and Lath of
the World, transport a
modern architect to Robert ScottÕs Terra Nova South Pole Expedition as the
quartermaster.
Dickinson, Matt. Black Ice. New York: St. MartinÕs Press, 2003.
Before scientists can pursue a troubling discovery from deep in
the ice cap, they must rescue two stranded explorers. People and events turn sour and the rescuers must flee for
their lives.
Donehower, Bruce. Ice. Bloomington (U.S.A.): Xlibris, 2003.
An archaeo-astronomer is sent to Antarctica to interpret
hieroglyphs found under the ice, revealing an ancient world order.
Reeder, David. Beneath the Glacier (aka A SADD2 Day). www.pulpanddagger.com, 2002.
An unofficial sequel to H. P. LovecraftÕs 1931 Antarctic novella At
the Mountains of Madness. This short story has a team of special
security agents from Miskatonic University looking for their lost associates
who were exploring an underground cave in an Antarctic glacier. The rescuers find more than they
bargained for.
Stross, Charles. A
Colder War. Aberdeen (U.K.): Spectrum Publishing, 2000.
A short story, originally published in Spectrum SF #3, about the
Cold War, with a chapter on U.S. intelligence services running a clandestine
drug transportation scheme through a porthole under AntarcticaÕs Lake Vostok
from an alien dimension. The full
story was also issued as a reading by Pat Bottino on CD, Great Science
Fiction Stories
(AudioText, 2005).
Engan, Charles and Janyce, et al. Beyond the Mountains of Madness: An Epic Antarctic
Campaign and Sourcebook. Oakland: Chaosium Inc., 1999.
Hammond, Rayford E. The Ice Breaker Incident. Rocky Mount
(U.S.A.): Briarwood Publications & Sassy Cat Books, Inc., 1999.
The first lieutenant on a Navy icebreaker, working in AntarcticaÕs
Ross Sea, is accused of shoving the shipÕs unloved Captain over the side and is
court-martialled for murder. A
sharp but dissolute Navy JAG lawyer must defend him.
Markert, James, The Hell That Is Ice. Louisville: Chicago
Spectrum Press, 1999.
Kelly, Joe, & McGuinness, Ed. Deadpool. New York: Marvel
Comics, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1997.
The inaugural issue of a series in which a villain, Deadpool, is
tested by a group of superhuman good characters for heroism. After sabotaging a nuclear facility in
Antarctica that protects against gamma rays, Deadpool has a change of heart and
prevents the deadly radiation from escaping and destroying the southern
hemisphere. He is then invited to
join the super heroes.
Bainbridge, Beryl. The Birthday Boys. New York: Carroll &
Graf, 1994.
A fictionalized account of Robert ScottÕs ill-fated South Pole
Expedition.
Burns, Michael. Hot Planet. Tubac (U.S.A.): Planet Press, 1994.
In 2006, as global warming causes the rapid melting of icecaps in
Antarctica and worldwide flooding, the Defenders of the Planet, an
environmental group, wage war with the energy establishment.
Stern, Roger, Guice, Jackson & Rodier, Denis. Superman in
Action Comics: Secret Weapon. New York: DC Comics, Issue #691, September 1993.
In his Antarctic Fortress of Solitude, Superman is regenerating
his powers through the Eradicator and overloads its circuits to get more
energy. He finally breaks to the
surface in his quest to defeat the evil Cyborg who is destroying earth.
Stern, Roger, Guice, Jackson & Rodier, Denis. Superman in
Action Comics: Lies & Revelations. New York: DC Comics, Issue #690, August
1993.
Superboy is held captive by Cyborg Superman, who deceives the
Justice League into searching for them on an asteroid belt. In the meantime, the real Superman is
being regenerated under the ice of Antarctica.
Kesel, Karl, Grummet, Tom & Hazlewood, Doug. The Adventures
of Superman: Line of Fire. New York: DC Comics, Issue #503, August 1993.
The evil Cyborg Superman has convinced the authorities that a
rogue Superman has destroyed Ocean City.
Super Boy is called in to help and is attacked by the Cyborg. Meanwhile, in Antarctica, something is
lurking and dives to the bottom of the polar sea.
Stern, Roger, Guice, Jackson & Rodier, Denis. Superman in
Action Comics: Born Again. New York: DC Comics, Issue #687, June 1993.
Beneath the ice of Antarctica, the deceased Superman is regenerated
from electrical energy and returns to Metropolis to fight crime as a changed
Superhero.
Giffen, Keith & DeMatteis, J.M. WhatÕs Black and White and Black and White and Black: Justice League Antarctica –
Justice League America Annual 4. New York: DC Comics, 1990.
Reformed comic character villains go to Antarctica as the Justice
LeagueÕs Antarctic branch and fight killer penguins at an abandoned base.
Jurgens, Dan & Perez, George. The Adventures of Superman: Home.
New York: DC Comics, Issue # 461, December 1989.
While battling a tidal wave in Metropolis, Superman returns to
Antarctica, where the Eradicator has been melting the ice and trying to destroy
Earth. He travels through a time
portal to meet his natural parents on Krypton, undergoes his Kryptonian rite of
passage and returns to Earth and wills the Eradicator to stop its destruction.
Jurgens, Dan & Kubert, Andy. The Adventures of Superman: Eradication.
New York: DC Comics, Issue # 460, November 1989.
The continuation of previous issue # 459, in which Superman buried
a Kryptonian relic, the Eradicator, in Antarctica. Still bothered by the objectÕs effect on him, Superman returns
to Antarctica and finds the relic has built a 10,000 ft. deep tower in the Ice
for the deadly purpose of eradication all non-Kryptonian life.
Jurgens, Dan, Perez, George & Gula, Tim. The Adventures of
Superman: Antarctic Solitude. New York: DC Comics, Issue # 459, October 1989.
Superman buries a dangerous relic, the Eradicator, from his home
planet Krypton in the depths of AntarcticaÕs ice.
Stern, Roger, Giffen, Keith & Janke, Dennis. Superman
Featured in Action Comics: Superman – Burial Ground. New York: DC Comics,
Issue # 646, October 1989.
Superman returns to Antarctica to ensure that the relic from
Krypton, the Eradicator, that he buried in Antarctica, is still there. At the same time, he encounters a giant
underground alien creature that has destroyed an unmanned research
station.
Byrne, John & Kesel, Karl. Superman 16. New York: DC
Comics, April 1988.
A team of scientists, flying over Antarctica, receive a signal and
upon landing discover what looks like Supergirl, buried in a slushy thermal ice
pocket at 126 degrees.
Walt DisneyÕs Uncle Scrooge: ŌA Cold BargainĶ. Scottsdale:
Gladstone Publishing, Issue # 215, March 1987.
Uncle Scrooge buys what he thinks is the rarest element on earth,
encased in a block of ice and goes to Antarctica to store it. It turns out to be a perpetual ice
cream maker. Scrooge loses it in
the vast ice and manages to find it with help from a penguin.
Chappell, Fred. Weird Tales. The Texas Review, Spring/Summer
1984.
A short story about the degenerate literary cronies of American
horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. One
of them discovers a portal to Antarctica in his apartment and disappears. This story has appeared in other
collections, including More Shapes Than One, New York: St. MartinÕs Press 1992.
Moench, Doug & Colan, Gene. Detective Comics Starring
Batman: Antarctic nightmare. New York: DC Comics, Issue # 541, August
1984.
Batman follows the villainous Penguin to Antarctica to stop him from
selling state secrets at a Russian base.
Carter, Nick (David Hagberg). Operation: McMurdo Sound. New
York: Ace Charter, 1982.
One of a series of 261 spy adventures published over 1964-1990,
written under the pseudonym Nick Carter, the protagonist. In this cold war story, Nick is sent by
the U.S. government to an Antarctic field base to investigate mysterious deaths
caused by poison gas, with Russians as protagonists. The cover of the book shows Nick on a snowmobile, backed by
a grove of rare Antarctic trees, presumably in the McMurdo Sound area.
Griffin. John. The Antarctic Convergence. London: Robert Hale
Ltd., 1979.
A ripping adventure
yarn of a British special agent, who investigates a series of mass murders at
numerous scientific bases in Antarctica,
Levitz, Paul. Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes: Prologue
to Earthwar. New York: DC Comics, Vo. 30, Issue # 241, July 1978.
In the thirtieth century, up in space, the Legionnaires prepare to
prevent a war between galaxies. On
Antarctica, the Resource Raiders are planning to steal a shipment of rare earth
metals from a stockpile and Sun Boy, Brainiac Five and Element Lad attempt to
thwart the heist.
Graves, Robert. Old Papa Johnson. London: Penguin Books, 1978.
From a collection of short stories by Robert Graves in The
Shout and Other Stories,
originally published by Penguin as Collected Short Stories in 1968. Old Papa Johnson is recovering in hospital in 1916 from war
wounds and relates an allegedly true story from his time as Crown Agent on
AntarcticaÕs Desolation Island.
Clarke,
Arthur C. At the Mountains of Murkiness. London: Ferret Fantasy, 1973.
This
is a short spoof of H. P. LovecraftÕs At the Mountains of Madness. It was
originally published as At the Mountains of Murkiness and Other Parodies by Ferret Fantasy and also appeared in The
Antarktos Cycle, a collection of
Antarctic horror stories published by Chaosium in 2006.
Uncredited author. Superman: The Last Days of Superman. Sparta,
Illinois: National Periodical Publications, Inc., Issue # 156, October 1962.
Superman is supposedly infected by a virus from Krypton and has a
month to live. To help him carry
out his remaining vital deeds, a team of superhero friends builds an ice
sculpture in Antarctica to heat the globe when he is gone.
Jarvis, E. K. A Home Among the Stars. New York: Fantastic, Vol.
6, No. 8, September 1957.
A very short story of an Antarctic meteorologist whose destiny is
to be purposely stranded at a base and to be rescued by aliens. E. K. Jarvis was the pen name of a
group of authors, writing for the science fiction pulp magazine Fantastic magazine
in the 1950s, to conceal the authorÕs real name. This story was also published by www.estarbooks.com as a Kindle Edition,
2011.
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BOOKS WITH ANTARCTIC CONTENT, NOT YET VERIFIED OR READ:
Daniel, Douglas.
The Deep Run. Kindle Edition, 2011
Evans, Bill & Jameson, Marianna. Dry Ice. New York: Tor/Tom
Doherty Associates, 2011.
After the rogue leader of a hi-tech Antarctic weather research
base has been sent home, the new leader and the scientists must find a way to
stop the series of computer programs that have already unleashed catastrophic
storms globally.
Filotto, Giuseppe. Overlords of Mars: Inception.
www.createspace.com, 2011.
Field, Melissa. The Good Luck Knot. Kindle Edition, 2011.
Fraser, Ian. The Depths of Perception. Kindle Edition, 2011.
Hazlehurst, Colin. Fusion. Smashwords Edition. Kindle Edition,
2011.
Taylor, Ron. Ice, Blood and Fire. Kindle Edition, 2011.
Khoury, Raymond. The Sign. New York: Signet (New American
Library/Penguin Group), 2010.
Ladnier, Gene. Paradox – HitlerÕs Granddaughter. Kindle
Edition, 2010.
Stevenson, John. Iceman: Book One - Resurrection. www.lulu.com, undated: est. 2010.
de Wit, Deo. The Antarctic Code. Bangor: Bangor: BookLocker.com,
2010.
Bentick, Robert. A Strange Messenger. Alpharetta (U.S.A), www.unibook.com, www.wwaow.com (World Wide
Association of Writers), 2009.
Kambayashi, Chōhei. Yukikaze. San Francisco: VIZ Media,
2009.
Sommer, Jr., Mark A.
Another Dawn II. U.S.A.: Lulu, Inc., 2009.
Eaton, Anthony. Into White Silence. North Sydney: Woolshed
Press, 2008.
Silverberg, Robert. The 13th Immortal. U.S.A.: Cosmos Books, 2004.