Science Fiction Antarctica

It is a stark and inhospitable place, where the landscape itself poses a challenge to survival, yet its strange, silent beauty has long fascinated scientists and adventurers. Now Antarctica faces an uncertain future. The international treaty which protects the continent is about to dissolve, clearing the way for Antarctica’s resources to be plundered, its eerie beauty to be savaged. As politicians wrangle over its fate, major corporations begin probing for its hidden riches.

At the end of the world, a groundbreaking scientific experiment will change everything. Dr. Laura Reynolds had it all. A job she loved. The respect of her peers. Student debt she was slowly chipping away at. And one day, it all went away. She saw the wrong thing—a colleague's mistake. And to escape, he framed her. Laura's only option is to join a secretive research project in Antarctica, where she hopes to keep practicing medicine and one day get her life back. But soon after arriving, she realizes that things aren't what they seem in this advanced facility.

From the titular story about a married woman who takes a trip to the city with a single purpose in mind—to sleep with another man—Antarctica draws listeners into a world of obsession, betrayal, and fragile relationships. Cordelia wakes on the last day of the twentieth century and sets off to keep a date nine years in the waiting. Frank Corso mourns the curious disappearance of his daughter and tries desperately to reach out to his shattered wife. Throughout the collection, Keegan's characters inhabit a world where dreams, memory, and chance can have crippling consequences.

From the acclaimed author of New York 2140 and Red Mars, this NYT bestselling novel tells the story of a future where humanity has populated miraculous new habitats engineered across the solar system -- and the one death that triggers a precarious chain of events that could destroy it all. The...

An ancient threat buried beneath the ice. A global outbreak no one saw coming. A desperate race to save humanity. When microbiologist Sonny Evans is invited to join a cutting-edge research mission in Antarctica, it feels like the opportunity of a lifetime. The team’s goal: drill into Earth’s oldest ice and unlock secrets frozen for millions of years. What they uncover should have stayed buried. The mission takes a dark turn when a team member collapses—blinded by something no one can explain. The crew returns home, only to watch a mysterious new contagion sweep across the globe. As ...

When Captain John Banks and his squad are sent to investigate a derelict Nazi base in Antarctica, he expects to find only ice and dead men. But there is something in the domed hangar bay that has been waiting for decades for release.

What if the key to your past lay at the end of the world? In the year 2261, the ice is melting and humanity is on the move. City of Ice and Dreams follows Sento, a brilliant but tormented young woman obsessed with Isorropia, a legendary Antarctic refuge said to be humanity’s last hope. After surviving a shipwreck, she leads a desperate band of climate refugees on a one-way journey across the frozen continent. Their survival depends on courage, sacrifice, and the will to endure Antarctica’s unforgiving wilderness. Inside Isorropia, First Citizen Elita Soares rules with a cold ...

His destination Antarctica, his expectations high, veteran explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton set out, on the eve of the First World War, in pursuit of his goal to lead the first expedition across the last unknown continent. Instead, his ship, the Endurance, became locked in sea ice, and for nine months Shackleton fought a losing battle with the elements before the drifting ship was crushed and his crew marooned.

In 1955, as a result of a secret agreement reached between the Eisenhower Administration and a German breakaway group in Antarctica, a transnational corporate space program began to emerge. The secret infusion of personnel and resources from US military contractors into Antarctica allowed this transnational corporate program to steadily grow into a major space power, which would eventually surpass and eclipse the secret space programs run by the US Navy, Air Force, and the classified space programs of other nations.

Meteorologist Jo Peterson enjoys her life as a loner hopscotching her way around the world chasing extreme weather events. When her best friend and mission leader, Ty Blackwell, asks her to join a mission to Antarctica, she balks. Staying in one place isn’t her thing, but how can she turn down the one person who’s stood by her or a golden trip to winter over at the South Pole?

It's icicle city when the Magic Tree House carries Jack and Annie to the frozen Arctic. Luckily, a seal hunter on a dogsled lends them warm clothes. Unluckily, they get stuck on cracking ice. Will the giant polar bear save them? Or will Jack and Annie become frozen dinners?

When a spontaneous time leap sends Nickolas Flux back to Ernest Shackleton's ill-fated Endurance Expedition to Antarctica, what's a teenage history buff to do? Try to avoid becoming stranded at the bottom of the world, of course!

Learn about the history and geography of Antarctica with iMindsJNR audio-learning series for younger minds. Antarctica is the fifth biggest continent on Earth. It is also the coldest. The sun shines for only half of the year and stays under the horizon for the other half. Early explorers of Antarctica described it as a mysterious, lonely place. But they also described it as a desert. And a desert it is!

Taking the visionary epic, forbidden history, and conspiracy to new levels. Genesis Antarctica is a multi-faceted work "based on ancient documents discovered under the Antarctic ice in 1962 by the Australian Vostok Traverse Expedition". Known as the "Haakon Urn" texts, these unique writings predate all other early civilizations (including legendary Atlantis, Lemuria, and Mu) by several tens of thousands of years.

Join Jon Michaels and his marine-biologist mother as they battle the 60-foot storm seas around Cape Horn on their way to Antarctica. Near Palmer Station, Jon enjoys an outdoor bath in volcano-heated water. Then he scuba dives in the cold, clear waters off McMurdo Station before braving a deadly whiteout flying to the South Pole.

Five years ago, Rowan underwent genetic modification and joined the Berserkers, a vicious new race threatening humankind. She left behind a devastated family in the peaceful Anai Valley of Antarctica and thought she would never see home again. But things are changing. Bran, the charismatic and ruthless leader of the Berserkers, has his sights set on the Anai Valley as he races toward more ambitious goals than anyone could imagine. Will Rowan stay true to Bran, her commander and lover? Or will she remember old loyalties and turn her destiny around? As the epic Frozen World saga races toward ...

This is a compendium of thesis that talk about different topics such as: Stargates, dimensions, ghosts, demons, incredible technology, the Anunnaki Gods of the Bible, human creation, the Universe, Terra Infinita, the Superdome, beings from other planets, the Draconian and Reptilian Captors of Earth, the melting of the Colossal Ice Wall, the Archons and Ancestral Humans, the Sons of Anak, the Holographic Simulation known as Reality, the resets of the Earth, Satan, the Scarlett Dragon, Ancient Avatars, the Avatar of God, etc.

In a chillingly masterful work by Thomas Weiss, Jr., Frozen Reich: Antarctica's Hidden Menace, an astonishing secret surfaces from deep within the icy plains of Antarctica. A duo of scientists, pushing the boundaries of the known world, stumble upon a hidden warm oasis, teeming with life and thriving amidst the desolate, frozen wilderness.

A mother and scientist trapped in an earthquake-ravaged Antarctica. A daughter fleeing rising waters in Florida. A father and son escaping tidal waves in Boston. When an earthquake sends the Thwaites glacier crashing into the ocean, the world begins a sudden, violent transformation. Kathryn, a seismologist wintering in Antarctica's McMurdo base, must survive the crumbling continent after discovering unprecedented seismic activity. Meanwhile, her family struggles to escape raging tsunamis and violently rising global seas halfway across the world.

Aristotle once said, "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." Antarctica has to be one of the most mysterious places on Earth. After hearing all the ancient accounts, geological evidence, and other weird things going on in Antarctica right now, you might wonder, is it about to get even stranger? Could it have been the home of Atlantis, the famous lost continent? Is Antarctica home to the Nephilim giants?