{"id":1337,"date":"2026-01-03T21:25:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T21:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/the-ice-war-baxter-stephen\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T21:25:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T21:25:41","slug":"the-ice-war-baxter-stephen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/the-ice-war-baxter-stephen\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ice War – Baxter, Stephen"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cThe Ice War\u201d is related to Stephen Baxter\u2019s 1993 novel Anti-Ice<\/i>, which was his first major attempt at alternate history. He recently completed his Time\u2019s Tapestry alternate history series for Ace, with the fourth book, Weaver<\/i>. He tells us he enjoys AH so much that this year he\u2019s serving as a judge on the Sidewise Award. Stephen\u2019s next project is a two-book sequence of climate and disaster called Flood and Ark; Flood<\/i> has just come out from Gollancz in the United Kingdom. <\/p>\n

The historians have painted March fifth 1720 as a day of infamy, for that was the day the Ice War was declared upon Britain by monsters from the sky. But my own poor life might have ended that ominous morn even before the war\u2019s tremendous events began to unfold. <\/p>\n

As I lay in my narrow bed in that dawn, Fred Partridge\u2019s voice drifted up to me from the chill road outside. \u201cJack Hobbes! I know you are up there, you blackguard. If you\u2019re alone in your pit or if you\u2019re not, come down and face your justice like a man!\u201d All this to a counterpoint of a hammering on the tavern door by mighty agricultural fists. <\/p>\n

My immediate stratagem was to follow that course that has served me so well throughout my life, that is to hide until the danger had passed. So I burrowed under the coarse sheets, pulling my jerkin tighter around me and my battered old felt hat down upon my ears, for in that spring the cold would freeze the marrow in your bones, and I kept on layers of clothes even during the night. I could guess why Fred was there, but even in that moment of peril I wished I had his daughter in the bed beside me again: full-breasted, empty-headed, sixteen years old, what a bedwarmer Verity had made! <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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