2022/124: Austral — Paul McAuley

2022/124: Austral — Paul McAuley

...two hundred years ago it would have been hard to imagine the peninsula with cities and settlements, forested valleys and fjords where glaciers had once flowed, and wolves and mammoths and elf stones. [loc. 1468]

Austral is a husky, a gene-edited human designed to thrive in the harsh climate of Antarctica. Not as harsh a climate as in the 21st century: climate change has warmed and flooded the world, and the ecopoets have been hard at work in the far south, helping the natural world adjust and create an ecosystem which can support human life.

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