Representations of Antarctica
Fiction, 1950- (Adult)
The following is a comprehensive 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.
Abbey, Lloyd. The Last Whales. New York: Grove Weidenfeld,1989.
Abramov, Aleksandr, and Sergei Abramov. Horsemen From Nowhere. Moscow: Mir, 1969.
Alexander, Caroline. Mrs Chippy's Last Expedition: The Remarkable Journals of Shackleton's Polar-Bound Cat. London: Bloomsbury, 1997.
[Also published in New York: Harper Collins, 1997.]
Andrews, Sarah. In Cold Pursuit. New York: St Martin's Minotaur, 2007.
[Andrews travelled to Antarctica on a National Science Foundation grant and produced this murder mystery set at McMurdo base.]
Archer, Alex [John F. Merz]. Polar Quest. Don Mills, Ontario: Worldwide Library, 2009.
[Number 16 in the Rogue Angel series. The protagonist, Alex Archer, was envisaged as a modern day Joan of Arc.]
Arthur, Elizabeth. 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, Bee. The Red Dust. London: Robert Hale,1965.
Barjavel, Rene. The Ice People. Trans. C. L. Markham. New York: Morrow, 1971.
[Translation of La Nuit des Temps. Paris: Presses de la Cite, 1968.]
Barker, Nicholas, and Anthony Marster. Red Ice. New York: St. Martin's, 1986.
Barrett, Michael. Antarctic Secret. New York: Roy, 1965.
Bartram, George. Under the Freeze. London: Arrow, 1986.
Batchelor, Joh Calvin. The Birth of the People's Republic of Antarctica. New York: Dial, 1983.
Beck, Greig. Beneath the Dark Ice. Sydney: Pan Macmillan, 2009.
Bellow, Saul. More Die of Heartbreak. New York: William Morrow, 1987.
Benjamin, Phillip. Quick, Before It Melts. New York: Random House, 1964.
Billing, Graham. 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.]
Blackadder, Jesse. Chasing the Light. Sydney: Fourth Estate, 2013.
Bledsoe, Lucy J. The Big Bang Symphony: A Novel of Antarctica. Wisconsin: Terrace Books, 2010.
Block, Thomas. Airship Nine. Sevenoaks: New English Library, 1985.
Boss, Judith. Deception Island. The Wild Rose Press, 2015.
Brannan, J. T. Origin. London: Headline, 2012.
Brinkley, William. 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, James. High Latitudes. New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1996.
Burke, David. Monday at McMurdo. Wellington: A. H. & A. W. Reed, 1967.
Caesar, Adrian. 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 in1913.]
Cameron, Ian [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.
[One of 261 spy adventures written under the pseudonym of Nick Carter, the protagonist. The cover depicts Carter on a snowmobile, dressed in only jeans and a sweater, and backed by a pine tree forest; an unusual representation of the McMurdo Sound region!]
Carter, Nick. White Death. New York: Charter Books, 1985.
Chabon, Michael. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. New York: Random House, 2000.
Charbonneau, Louis. The Ice: A Novel of Antarctica. New York: Donald I. Fine, 1991.
Clair, Daphne. Frozen Heart. London: Mills & Boon, 1980.
Clark, Kathy. Groom Unknown. Toronto: Harlequin, 1994.
Clark, Leigh. Carnivore. New York: Leisure, 1997.
Clarke, Cassandra Rose. Our Lady of the Ice. New York: Saga Press, 2015.
Clough, Brenda W. Revise the World. Book View Press, 2008. eBook.
[Developed from the short story, "May Be Some Time", 2001.]
Cobb, James H. Choosers of the Slain. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1996.
Corley, Ernest. White-Out. London: Jarrolds Publishers, 1960.
Curran, Tim. Hive. Lake Orio, MI: Elder Signs, 2010.
[This sci fi horror was written as a sequel to H. P. Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness. A revised edition was published by Severed Press in 2012. Curran also wrote a sequel, Hive 2: The Spawnin. Lake Orio, MI: Elder Signs, 2010.]
Cussler, Clive. 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, John Gordon. 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, William. Dark Winter. New York: Warner, 2001.
---. Ice Reich. New York, Warner, 1998.
Dionne, Karen. Freezing Point. New York: Jove Books, 2008.
Dorfman, Ariel. The Nanny and the Iceberg. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1999.
Eaton, Anthony. Into White Silence. North Sydney: Woolshed Press, 2008.
Eckert, Allan W. The HAB Theory. New York: Little, Brown, 1976.
Errington, Susan. Ice Letters. Sydney: Vintage Books, 2015.
Fearnley, Laurence. Degrees of Separation. Auckland: Penguin New Zealand, 2006.
Fenton, James. The Weddell Sea. Just Fiction, 2012. Kindle edition.
Follett, James. Ice. New York: Stein & Day, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1978.
[Also published London: Mandarin, 1989.]
---. Second Atlantis. Sutton, Severn House, 1998.
[A revision of Follet's earlier novel, Ice.]
---. Three Bestselling Novels in One Volume: Ice, U700, Churchill's Gold. London: Arrow Books, 2004.
Forbes, Stephen. 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, David. Down to a Sunless Sea. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1981.
Greanias, Thomas. Raising Atlantis. New York: Pocket Star, 2005.
[A massive earthquake in Antarctica reveals the ancient city of Atlantis.]
Griffin, John. The Antarctic Convergence. London: Robert Hale, 1979.
Gurdon, Captain 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, Kare. The Race. 1974. Trans. Joan Tate. New York: Delacorte/Seymour Lawrence; London: Michael Joseph, 1976.
Hunt, Rebecca. Everland. London: Fig Tree, 2014.
Innes, Hammond. Target Antarctica. London: Pan, 1993.
---. Isvik. New York: St. Martin's, 1991.
---. The White South. London: Collins, 1949.
[Also published as The Survivors.]
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.
Johnson, Mat. Pym. New York: Spiegle & Grau, 2011.
[Satirical fantasy inspired by Pym's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket.]
Joseph, Robert. The Aquarius Transfer. New York: Fawcett Gold Medal, 1982.
Kalla, Daniel. Cold Plague. New York: Tor, 2008.
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.
Komatsu, Sakyo. Virus. 1964. Trans. Daniel Huddlestone. San Francisco: VIZ Media, 2012.
Langley, Bob. Precipice. New York: Bantam, 1991.
---. Falklands Gambit. 1985. New York: Bantam, 1988.
Larkin, L. A. Thirst. Sydney: Pier 9, 2012.
[Thriller set on and around Pine Island Glacier.]
---. Devour: An Olivia Woolfe Thriller. London: Constable, 2016.
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.
Longo, Jennifer. Up to this Pointe. New York: Random House, 2015.
Lucas, Jeremy. The Longest Flight. London: Jonathan Cape, 1982.
Lupoff, Richard A. Circumpolar! New York: Timescope, 1984.
Macpherson, Helen. Colder Than Ice. Texas: Regal Crest Enterprises, 2004.
Mariner, David. Symbol of Vengeance. London: Robert Hale & Co, 1975.
Marshall, James Vance. White-Out. London: Souvenir, 1999.
[Also published New York: Soho, 2000.]
Masello, Robert. Blood and Ice. New York: Bantam Spectra, 2009.
Mastorakis, Nico, and Barnaby Conrad. Fire Below Zero. New York: Dell, 1981.
Maverick, Liz. Adventures of an Ice Princess. New York: New American Library, 2004.
Mayer, Bob. Eternity Base. Novato: Lyford, 1996.
McCarry, Charles. The Better Angels. 1979. New York: Fawcett, 1982.
McClenaghan, Jack. The Ice Admiral. London: W.H. Allen, 1969.
McDonald, Jo. Gabriel. London: Chapman & Hall, 1964.
McLaughlin, W.R.D. Antarctic Raider. London: Harrap, 1960.
---. So Thin is the Line. London: Harrap, 1963.
McNeil, Jean. The Ice Lovers. Toronto: McArthur & Company, 2009.
[MacNeil undertook a BAS/Arts Fellowship to Antarctica in 2005/06.]
Miller, Benjamin E. Deep Current. New York: Onyx, 2004.
Mooney, Ted. Easy Travel to Other Planets. New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1981.
Moran, Richard. Cold Sea Rising. New York: Arbor House, 1986.
---. Earth Winter. New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 1995.
Morris, M.E. The Icemen: A Novel of Antarctica. Novato, California: Presidio, 1988.
Mundy, Robyn. The Nature of Ice. Crows Nest, Allen & Unwin, 2009.
Neider, Charles. "The Grotto Berg." The Grotto Berg: Two Novellas. US: Cooper Square, 2000.
---. Overflight. Far Hills: New Horizon, 1986.
Nolan, Gerry. Icescape. Cammeray: Horwitz, 1980.
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.
O'Loughlin, Ed. Minds of Winter. London: Quercus Editions Ltd, 2016.
Owen, M. The White Mantle. London: Robert Hale, 1967.
Pavlou, Stel. Decipher. London, Sydney: Simon & Schuster UK Limited/Simon & Schuster Australia, 2001.
Peters, Geoffrey. The Chill of a Corpse. London and Sydney: Ward Lock and Co, 1968.
Pierce, Richard. Dead Men. New York: Overlook Press, 2012.
Pinol, Albert Sanchez. 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. Set on an unspecified subantarctic island.]
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, Douglas, and Lincoln Child. The Ice Limit. New York: Warner, 2000.
Raymond, Midge. My Last Continent. Melbourne: Text Publishing, 2016.
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.
Rosenberger, Joseph. Death Merchant: The Atlantean Horror. New York: Pinnacle Books, 1985.
Rucker, Rudy. The Hollow Earth: The Narrative of Mason Algiers Reynolds of Virginia. New York: William Morrow, 1990.
Russell, Craig. Fragment: A Novel. Saskatoon: Thistledown Press, 2016.
Ryan, Robert. Death on the Ice. London: Headline, 2009.
[Fictionalised account of Scot's fatal expedition.]
Semple, Maria. Where'd You Go, Bernadette. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2012.
Shelby, Ashley. South Pole Station: A Novel. New York: Picador, 2017.
Smith, David. Freeze Frame. Ringwood: Penguin, 1992.
Smith, Vincent. The Last Blue Whale. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1979.Rpt. of Musco: Blue Whale. Sydney: Harper & Row, 1979.
Smith, Wilbur. Hungry as the Sea. 1978. London: Pan, 1979.
Stevens, David. White For Danger. 1979. New York: Stein and Day, 1985.
Stone, Robert. Outerbridge Reach. Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1998.
Tabor, James. Frozen Solid. New York: Ballantine, 2013.
Thomas, Rosie. Sun at Midnight. London: HarperCollins, 2004.
Thompson, Claire. Polar Reaction. Samhein, 2009.
Tonkin, Peter. Powerdown. London: Headline, 1999.
Turner, Ann. Out of the Ice. Sydney: Simon & Schuster, 2016.
Walker, Peter Lancaster. The Ice Sunset. London: Mitre, 1973.
Walker, Sage. Whiteout. New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 1996.
Westerman, John F. C. The Looted Gold. London: Ward, Lock, 1960.
Williams, Tess. Map of Power. Sydney: Random House, 1996.
Wilson, F. Paul. An Enemy of the State. New York: Doubleday, 1980.
Woodard, Captain Ed U., and Heather Woodard Bischoff. Storehouses of the Snow. New York: Leisure, 1980.