Book World: The perfect science fiction, fantasy and genre-bending tales for the chilly days ahead
Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Lavie Tidhar, The Washington Post
Dec. 18, 2020
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Winter is here. It may have taken a long time to come in George R.R. Martin s A Song of Ice and Fire series, but when it hits, all you want to do is curl up in bed and lock the doors against the snow zombies. Winter has long fascinated writers. In C.S. Lewis s classic The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe the four Pevensie children must save Narnia from the evil White Witch and her eternal winter. In H.P. Lovecraft s At the Mountains of Madness, an expedition to Antarctica discovers an alien city under the ice, with predictable results. You may be tempted to hibernate through the end of 2020 and beyond, but we ve got a whole slew of books set in cold locations to keep you awake.