FICTION (ADULT), 1950-

The following is a comprehesive list of novels (designed for an adult audience) published after 1949, written in English or translated into English, containing substantial Antarctic material. It includes fictional re-creations of real events.

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Abbey, L. The Last Whales. New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1989.

Abramov, A., and S. Abramov. Horsemen From Nowhere. Moscow: Mir, 1969.

Alexander, C. Mrs Chippy's Last Expedition. New York: Harper Collins; London: Bloomsbury, 1997.

Arthur, E. Antarctic Navigation. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995.

Bailey, Auden. Drifting at the Bottom of the World. Ferndale, MI: Bella, 2002.

Bainbridge, Beryl. The Birthday Boys. London: Duckworth, 1991.

Baldwin, B. The Red Dust. London: Robert Hale, 1965.

Barjavel, Rene. The Ice People. New York: Morrow, 1971. Trans. of La Nuit des Temps. Paris: Presses de la Cité, 1968.

Barker, N. and A. Marter. Red Ice. New York: St. Martin's, 1986.

Barrett, M. Antarctic Secret. New York: Roy, 1965.

Bartram, G. Under the Freeze. London: Arrow, 1986.

Batchelor, Joh Calvin. The Birth of the People's Republic of Antarctica. New York: Dial, 1983.

Bellow, S. More Die of Heartbreak. New York: William Morrow, 1987.

Benjamin, P. Quick, Before It Melts. New York: Random House, 1964.

Billing, G. Forbush and the Penguins. New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston; London: Hodder Fawcett, 1965. [Adapted for the 1972 film, Cry of the Penguins, starring Hayley Mills and John Hurt.]

Block, T. Airship Nine. Sevenoaks: New English Library, 1985.

Brinkley, W. The Last Ship. New York: Ballantine, 1989.

Brockmeier, Kevin. The Brief History of the Dead. London: John Murray, 2006.

Browning, Scott. Searchers. Los Angeles: Cougar, 2001.

Buchan, J. High Latitudes. New York: Marlowe, 1996.

Burke, D. Monday at McMurdo. Wellington: A.H. & A.W. Reed, 1967.

Caesar, A. The White. Sydney: Pan Macmillan, 1999. [Imaginative recreation of the last days of Scott's expedition, plus Mawson's solo trek back to Cape Dension in 1913.]

Cameron, I. [D. G. Payne.] The White Ship. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1975.

Carter, Nick [David Hagberg]. Operation: McMurdo Sound. New York: Ace Charter, 1982.

Chabon, M. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. New York: Random House, 2000.

Charbonneau, L. The Ice: A Novel of Antarctica. New York: Donald I. Fine, 1991.

Clair, D. Frozen Heart. London: Mills & Boon, 1980.

Clark, Leigh. Carnivore. New York: Leisure, 1997.

Cobb, J.H. Choosers of the Slain. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1996.

Cussler, C. Atlantis Found. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1999.

---. Shock Wave. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996.

---. Treasure. New York: Pocket, 1988.

Darrieussecq, Marie. White.Trans. Ian Monk. London: Faber, 2005.

Davis, Gerry. Doctor Who and the Tenth Planet. London: Target, 1976.

Davis, J.G. Seize the Wind. New York: Stein and Day, 1985.

---. Leviathan. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1976.

---. Cape of Storms. Garden City: Doubleday, 1970.

Davis, Paxton. A Flag at the Pole: Three Soliloquies. 1976. New York: Atheneum, 1984.

Dickie, F.E.D. Snow in Summer. Edinburgh, London: Oliver & Boyd, 1967.

Dickinson, Matt. Black Ice. London: Arrow, 2003.

Dickson, G.R. Secret Under Antarctica. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963.

Dietrich, W. Dark Winter. New York: Warner, 2001.

---. Ice Reich. New York, Warner, 1998.

Dorfman, A. The Nanny and the Iceberg. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1999.

Eckert, A.W. The HAB Theory. New York: Little, Brown, 1976.

Fearnley, Laurence. Degrees of Separation. Auckland: Penguin New Zealand, 2006.

Follett, James. Ice. New York: Stein & Day, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1978. [Also published London: Mandarin, 1989.]

Forbes, S. False Cross. New York: Signet, 1989.

Gannett, Lewis. Magazine Beach. New York: HarperPrism, 1996.

Gemmell, Nikki. Shiver. Sydney: Random House Australia, 1997.

Golding, William. Fire Down Below. New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1989.

Graham, D. Down to the Sunless Sea. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1981.

Griffin, John. The Antarctic Convergence. London: Robert Hale, 1979.

Gurdon, J.E. The Secret of the South. London, New York: Frederick Warne, 1950.

Hackman, Gene and Daniel Lenihan. Wake of the Perdido Star. New York: Newmarket, 1999.

Hall, A. Pawn in Jeopardy. New York: Harper Paperbacks, 1954.

Harbinson, W.A. Dream Maker. New York: Walker, 1992.

Harrison, Craig. Days of Starlight. Auckland, Sydney: Hodder and Stoughton, 1988.

Harrison, Payne. Thunder of Erebus. London: Arrow, 1991.

Henrick, Richard P. Ice Wolf. New York: Harper Paperbacks, 1994.

Herbert, Marie. Winter of the White Seal. New York: William Morrow, 1982.

Hinchcliffe, Philip. Doctor Who and the Seeds of Doom. Pinnacle, 1980.

Holt, K. The Race. 1974. Trans. Joan Tate. New York: Delacorte/Seymour Lawrence; London: Michael Joseph, 1976.

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Innes, Hammond. Target Antarctica. London: Pan, 1993.

---. Isvik. New York: St. Martin's, 1991.

---. The White South. London: Collins, 1949.

Irwin, Robert. The Limits of Vision. 1986. Sawtry: Dedalus, 1993.

Jackson, Deborah. Ice Tomb. Woodbridge, Virginia: Invisible College, 2004. [Ignore the polar bear pictured on the front cover. This is a book about Antarctica.]

Jenkins, Geoffrey. A Grue of Ice. New York: Viking, 1962.

Joseph, Robert. The Aquarius Transfer. New York: Fawcett Gold Medal, 1982.

Kavaler, Lucy. Heroes and Lovers. New York: Dutton, 1995.

Kavan, Anna. Ice. New York: Dufour Editions, 1967.

Kelly, Vivien. Take One Young Man. London: Arrow, 2000.

Keneally, Thomas. Victim of the Aurora. London: Collins, 1977.

---. The Survivor. Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1969.

Kilian, Crawford. Ice Quake. London: Futura, 1979.

Kitto, Crispin. The Antarctica Cookbook. New York: St. Martin's, 1984.

Langley, Bob. Precipice. New York: Bantam, 1991.

---. Falklands Gambit. 1985. New York: Bantam, 1988.

Leinster, Murray. Monster From Earth's End. New York, London: White Lion, 1959. [Originally published by Fawcett in 1959. Republished by White Lion in 1973. Adapted for the 1966 schlock-horror cult film classic, Navy vs the Night Monster, starring Mamie van Doren and directed by Michael Hoey.]

Livingston, S.N. Antarctic Fury. New York: Carlton, 1991.

Lucas, Jeremy. The Longest Flight. London: Jonathan Cape, 1982.

Lupoff, R. Circumpolar! New York: Timescope, 1984.

Marshall, James Vance. White-Out. London: Sourvenir, 1999. [Also published New York: Soho, 2000.]

Mastorakis, N. and B. Conrad. Fire Below Zero. New York: Dell, 1981.

Maverick, Liz. Adventures of an Ice Princess. New York: New American Library, 2002.

Mayer, B. Eternity Base. Novato: Lyford, 1996.

McCarry, C. The Better Angels. 1979. New York: Fawcett, 1982.

McClenaghan, J. The Ice Admiral. London: W.H. Allen, 1969.

McDonald, Jo. Gabriel. London: Chapman & Hall, 1964.

McLaughlin, W.R.D. So Thin is the Line. London: Harrap, 1963.

---. Antarctic Raider. London: Harrap, 1960.

Mooney, T. Easy Travel to Other Planets. New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1981.

Moran, R. Earth Winter. New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 1995.

---. Cold Sea Rising. New York: Arbor House, 1986.

Morris, M.E. The Icemen: A Novel of Antarctica. Novato, California: Presidio, 1988.

Neider, C. Overflight. Far Hills: New Horizon, 1986.

O'Brian, Patrick. The Wine-Dark Sea. New York, London: W.W. Norton, 1993.

---. The Far Side of the World. Glasgow: William Collins & Sons, 1984.

---. Desolation Island. Glasgow: William Collins & Sons, 1978.

Owen, M. The White Mantle. London: Robert Hale, 1967.

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Pavlou, Stel. Decipher. London, Sydney: Simon & Schuster UK Limited/Simon & Schuster Australia, 2001.

Piñol, Albert Sánchez. Cold Skin. Trans. Cheryl Leah Morgan. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005. [Originally published in Catalan as La Pell Freda. Barcelona: Ediciones La Campana, 2002.]

Plowright, Kerry. Vostok Station: Point of Impact. Victoria, Canada: Trafford Publishing. 2005.

Pollock, Herbert W. None Shall Forget. Haverford PA: Infinity, 2002.

Poyer, D.C. White Continent. New York: Jove, 1980.

Preisler, Jerome. Tom Clancy's Powerplays #5: Cold War. New York: Berkely Books; London: Penguin, 2001.

Preston, D. and L. Child. The Ice Limit. New York: Warner, 2000.

Reeves-Stevens, Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens. Icefire. New York: Pocket, 1998.

Reilly, Matthew. Ice Station. Sydney: Pan Macmillian Australia, 1998.

Reiss, Bob. Purgatory Road. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996.

Robinson, Kim Stanley. Antarctica. London: HarperCollins, 1997.

Rollins, James. Subterranean. New York: Avon, 1999.

Rucker, Rudy. The Hollow Earth: The Narrative of Mason Algiers Reynolds of Virginia. New York: William Morrow, 1990.

Savage, Georgia. Ceremony at Lang Nho. Ringwood: McPhee Gribble, 1994.

Smith, David. Freeze Frame. Ringwood: Penguin, 1992.

Smith, V. The Last Blue Whale. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1979.Rpt. of Musco: Blue Whale. Sydney: Harper & Row, 1979.

Smith, W. Hungry as the Sea. 1978. London: Pan, 1979.

Stevens, David. White For Danger. 1979. New York: Stein and Day, 1985.

Stone, R. Outerbridge Reach. Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1998.

Thomas, Rosie. Sun at Midnight. London: HarperCollins, 2004.

Walker, Peter Lancaster. The Ice Sunset. London: Mitre, 1973.

Walker, Sage. Whiteout. New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 1996.

Wedde, I. Symmes Hole. Auckland: Penguin, 1986.

Westerman, John F.C. The Looted Gold. London: Ward, Lock, 1960.

Williams, Tess. Map of Power. Sydney: Random House, 1996.

Wilson, F.P. An Enemy of the State. New York: Doubleday, 1980.

Woodard, E. and H. Woodard Bischoff. Storehouses of the Snow. New York: Leisure, 1980.

Bibliography compiled as part of project undertaken by Dr Elizabeth Leane, School of English, Journalism and European Languages, University of Tasmania.

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