Cold People: From the multi-million copy bestselling author of Child 44

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History has proven that we humans find it difficult to peacefully co-exist with anything, much less another race or species. I understand I can change my preference through my account settings or unsubscribe directly from any marketing communications at any time.

Increasingly, tension grows between those who have embraced the DNA modifications as a way of protecting their children from the subzero cold and those who believe that only an entirely new breed of human is capable of surviving in it.It’s so descriptive that rarely have I read a book where I’ve felt I am living side by side with the characters. So it becomes a survival story and this was interesting enough but then in the middle it also becomes a Sci-fi story genetic engineering to create ‘cold people’, quite drastic changes are made, and the ethics are questionable.

After graduating from Cambridge University in 2001, he completed his studies in Italy, studying creative writing for a year. Reading the first section of this book carefully and intelligently tells us everything we need to know about the main players in this book and sets the stage for what is to come and how they will behave when faced with trying to survive in the hostile wastes of Antarctica and I think it is very cleverly done.The book starts off well with a truncated history of what humans have done on the continent of Antarctica, the most hostile region on the planet for humans to live. The bulk of the book then delved into genetic engineered ice children (with the main character a teenager who can survive the freezing temperatures, a character age always off-putting for me). The race is on to see who wins out as the new reigning population, and who they will take under their wing, and who they will banish to a lessor portion of the frozen world. The main characters at the beginning are people I could root for, but unfortunately, their role diminishes, and they disappear for long stretches of the narrative. It’s most definitely a piece that I believe will continue to prick my conscience and cause me to re-evaluate how I live my life, the good things and the bad.