Title & Author needed for a fiction book set in an ice age.

May 17, 2017 8:21 PM

I'm looking for the title/author of a book. I think I read the book in the late 70s/early 80s. There might've been a war on or due to the end of the world, the military was the main focus. Glaciers were moving at a rapid rate across the earth, to the point that people were being frozen in walls of ice as they passed. The protagonist might've been a woman and she was having a relationship with a man who might've been in the military.

It wasn't full-out sci-fi, but the setting was pretty post-apocalyptic. I can't even remember if it was any good, but not knowing has always bugged me, and I remember really liking the setting. That's all I can remember without guessing.

posted by Zack_Replica to Writing & Language (4 answers total)

Best answer: Your description reminds me of Anna Kavran's Ice, at least in terms of content and specific scenes. Its writing style and atmosphere would probably be something you'd remember too, if it's the right book.
posted by Wobbuffet at 1:00 AM on May 18, 2017

The Snow by Adam Roberts?
posted by Martha My Dear Prudence at 5:40 AM on May 18, 2017

One of Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover books, maybe?
posted by Crystal Fox at 8:39 AM on May 18, 2017

Response by poster: Ice. That was it. Thanks!
The Snow sounds similar and I'll definitely hunt that down.
I forgot about the Darkover series, so that must mean it's time to re-read them.
Thanks all!
posted by Zack_Replica at 11:03 AM on May 18, 2017