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Iron Winter

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Praised as 'not only a gifted storyteller but also a master of speculative fiction' (Library Journal), bestselling author Stephen Baxter brings his epic Northland trilogy to a close as a once-thriving civilization faces winter without end....
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Praised as 'not only a gifted storyteller but also a master of speculative fiction' (Library Journal), bestselling author Stephen Baxter brings his epic Northland trilogy to a close as a once-thriving civilization faces winter without end....
Many generations ago, the Wall was built to hold back the sea. A simple dam, it grew into a vast linear city, home to scholars, builders, and merchants. Northland's prosperity survived wars and unrest-'and brought the whole of Europe together.
But now darkness is falling. Days grow shorter, temperatures colder, and in the wake of long winters come famine, destruction, and terror. As a mass exodus to warmer climes threatens to fracture Northland, one man believes he can outwit the cold, and even salvage some scraps of the great civilization-'before interminable gloom settles over the land; before the fires of war lay waste to an empire; before the ice comes....

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