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The Ice King

by Michael Scott Rohan, Allan Scott
The Ice King by Michael Scott Rohan, Allan Scott
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A Viking temple. A Viking ship. Both preserved in the clinging, black mud of the North Yorkshire estuary. Press and TV watch over the archaeologists' shoulders as past and present merge.

And while huge, death-cold creatures stalk and destroy through the blizzards of an eerily early winter, modern computer science and the dark night-knowledge of the old Norse gods disinter a terrible truth about a past that is sleeping, not dead.

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Release date: 1986

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Michael Scott Rohan

Michael Scott Rohan (1951-2018) was a Scottish fantasy and science fiction author and writer on opera.

He had a number of short stories published before his first books, the science fiction novel Run to the Stars and the non-fiction First Byte. He then collaborated with Allan J. Scott on the nonfiction The Hammer and The Cross (an account of Christianity arriving in Viking lands, not to be confused with Harry Harrison's similarly themed novel trilogy of the same name) and the fantasy novels The Ice King and A Spell of Empire.

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Rohan is best known for the Ice Age-set trilogy The Winter of the World. He also wrote the Spiral novels, in which our world is the Hub, or Core, of a spiral of mythic and legendary versions of familiar cities, countries and continents.

In the "Author's Note" to The Lord of Middle Air, Rohan asserted that he and Walter Scott have a common ancestor in Michael Scot, who is a character in the novel.

According to his entry on the website of the Little, Brown Book Group, "after many years in Oxford and Yorkshire (they moved to Leeds in 1984), he and his American wife Deborah (Archives Conservator for Cambridgeshire) lived (as of 1994) in a small village near Cambridge, next to the pub."

More books by Michael Scott Rohan

Shadow of the Seer (The Winter of the World #6)
★ 6.00 / 1
The Singer and the Sea (The Winter of the World #5)
★ 6.00 / 1
The Castle of the Winds (The Winter of the World #4)
★ 6.00 / 1
Maxie's Demon (The Spiral #4)
★ 4.00 / 1
The Lord of Middle Air
★ 7.00 / 3
Cloud Castles (The Spiral #3)
★ 4.00 / 1
A Spell of Empire: The Horns of Tartarus
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The Gates of Noon (The Spiral #2)
★ 4.00 / 1
Chase the Morning (The Spiral #1)
★ 4.00 / 1
The Hammer of the Sun (The Winter of the World #3)
★ 8.00 / 1
The Forge in the Forest (The Winter of the World #2)
★ 8.00 / 1
The Anvil of Ice (The Winter of the World #1)
★ 8.00 / 2
Run to the Stars
Unrated


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