Cold People: From the multi-million copy bestselling author of Child 44

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But the alien overlords are not the focus of Smith’s interest here; they are no more than a device to effect this revolutionary reinvention not only of human society, but of humanity itself. For example, the phrase: "everyone liked him" was used in reference to several different characters, through a few decades and time leaps. It's a book that probably needed to be double the length to have any chance to fill the gaps in the storyline. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. All we are told is that a few people set off from Antarctica to reconnoitre with the aliens and are never seen again.

The survivors of the human genocide have created a new society on Antarctica and, in the process, have begun and continued to go down a dangerous path of genetic experimentation to create a new ice-adapted human that will ensure the survival of the human race. I found Tim Rob Smith’s “Cold People” to be a thought-provoking, post-apocalyptic, science fiction tale. Which then bumps into a cruise liner, which they zip line down to, then walk across a nuclear submarine on to the beach.The 20-year gap in the storyline omitted facts about the struggles in the development of communities. The premise was interesting, and the story threads are there, but none really go anywhere or are concluded nicely.

Born in 1979 to a Swedish mother and an English father, Tom Rob Smith's bestselling novels in the Child 44 trilogy were international publishing sensations. After graduating from Cambridge University in 2001, he completed his studies in Italy, studying creative writing for a year. The goal was to develop powerful beings that could withstand the cold and perform jobs that humans could not do in extreme climate.Who gets to decide who will go, when not everyone can make it, and how do people deal with the difficult and heartbreaking decisions that have to be made. Their flirtatious rendezvous is inconveniently interrupted by alien occupation and a chaos similar to that of the start of War of the Worlds ensues – this time however humans are their own worst enemy as panic sets in due to an impending deadline to reach Antarctica. Original and imaginative, as profoundly intimate as it is grand in scope, is a masterful and unforgettable epic.