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The Ice People

The Ice People

( French - la Nuit de Temps - 1968 )

novel by Rene Barjavel

translated by Charles Lam Markmann

Published: William Morrow & Co. - hardback - 1971
ISBN: 0688018602 / 978-0688018603

Science Fiction Book Club - hardback - 1972
ISBN: none

Mayflower - paperback - 1970
ISBN: ( 0 )583120695

Pyramid - paperback - 1973
ISBN: 0515029130

Hart-Davis - hardback - 1970
ISBN: 0246640138

Synopsis:
When a French expedition in Antarctica reveals the ruins of a 900,000 year old civilization, scientists from all over the world flock to the site to help explore and understand. The entire planet watches via global satellite television, mesmerized, as the explorers uncover a chamber in which a man and a woman have been in suspended animation since, as the French title suggests, 'the night of time'. The woman, Eléa, is awakened, and through a translating machine she tells the story of her world, herself and her husband Paikan, and how war destroyed her civilization. She also hints at an incredibly advanced knowledge that her still-dormant companion possesses (who is not her love Paikan, but the scientist Coban, whom she hates), knowledge that could give energy and food to all humans at no cost. But the superpowers of the world are not ready to let Eléa's secrets spread, and show that, 900,000 years and an apocalypse later, mankind has not grown up and is ready to make the same mistakes again. ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ice_People_(Barjavel_novel) )

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