'An ambitious, cinematic thriller' Observer
'A talented storyteller' The Times
'A cinematic epic' Daily Mail
What if the only hope for survival becomes the greatest threat?
From the brilliant, bestselling author of Child 44 comes a suspenseful and fast-paced novel about a colony of global apocalypse survivors seeking to reinvent civilisation under the most extreme conditions imaginable.
The world has fallen. Without warning, a mysterious and omnipotent force has claimed the planet for their own. There are no negotiations, no demands, no reasons given for their actions. All they have is a message: humanity has thirty days to reach the one place on Earth where they will be allowed to exist… Antarctica.
Cold People follows the journeys of a handful of those who endure the frantic exodus to the most extreme environment on the planet. But their goal is not merely to survive the present. Because as they cling to life on the ice, the remnants of their past swept away, they must also confront the urgent challenge: can they change and evolve rapidly enough to ensure humanity’s future? Can they build a new society in the sub-zero cold?
Original and imaginative, as profoundly intimate as it is grand in scope, Cold People is a masterful and unforgettable epic.
Praise for Tom Rob Smith
‘A remarkable achievement’ Jeffery Deaver
‘Amazing’ Lee Child
‘Chilling, hypnotic and thoroughly compelling’ Mark Billingham
‘Truly original and chilling’ Jojo Moyes
‘Tom Rob Smith’s mastery of suspense will make any reader’s heart pound’ Financial Times
‘A thrilling, intense piece of fiction’ Observer
‘Ingeniously plotted... a high voltage story’ New York Times
‘Perfectly plotted, utterly terrifying’ Daily Mail
‘A mind-blowing, addictive plot that will have you on the edge of your seat’ Stylist
‘A powerful page-turner’ GQ
‘Taut and atmospheric’ Irish Independent
‘Masterly... read this and shiver’ Telegraph
'An ambitious, cinematic thriller' Observer
'A talented storyteller' The Times
'A cinematic epic' Daily Mail
What if the only hope for survival becomes the greatest threat?
From the brilliant, bestselling author of Child 44 comes a suspenseful and fast-paced novel about a colony of global apocalypse survivors seeking to reinvent civilisation under the most extreme conditions imaginable.
The world has fallen. Without warning, a mysterious and omnipotent force has claimed the planet for their own. There are no negotiations, no demands, no reasons given for their actions. All they have is a message: humanity has thirty days to reach the one place on Earth where they will be allowed to exist… Antarctica.
Cold People follows the journeys of a handful of those who endure the frantic exodus to the most extreme environment on the planet. But their goal is not merely to survive the present. Because as they cling to life on the ice, the remnants of their past swept away, they must also confront the urgent challenge: can they change and evolve rapidly enough to ensure humanity’s future? Can they build a new society in the sub-zero cold?
Original and imaginative, as profoundly intimate as it is grand in scope, Cold People is a masterful and unforgettable epic.
Praise for Tom Rob Smith
‘A remarkable achievement’ Jeffery Deaver
‘Amazing’ Lee Child
‘Chilling, hypnotic and thoroughly compelling’ Mark Billingham
‘Truly original and chilling’ Jojo Moyes
‘Tom Rob Smith’s mastery of suspense will make any reader’s heart pound’ Financial Times
‘A thrilling, intense piece of fiction’ Observer
‘Ingeniously plotted... a high voltage story’ New York Times
‘Perfectly plotted, utterly terrifying’ Daily Mail
‘A mind-blowing, addictive plot that will have you on the edge of your seat’ Stylist
‘A powerful page-turner’ GQ
‘Taut and atmospheric’ Irish Independent
‘Masterly... read this and shiver’ Telegraph
Tom Rob Smith is the author of the acclaimed Child 44 trilogy. Child 44 itself was a global publishing sensation, selling over two million copies. It was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Prize and won the CWA Steel Dagger Award. His most recent novel, The Farm, was a #1 international bestseller. Tom also writes for television and won a Writer’s Guild Award for best adapted series and an Emmy and Golden Globe for best limited series with American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace. He is also the creator and executive producer of FX’s suspense thriller series Class of ’09.
‘Much more than a work of science fiction, this is a human tale,
filled with emotionally driven plots that weave together into the
most satisfying of climactic events. It also boasts locational
descriptions that fill the mind with dazzling visual landscapes of
the frozen tundra. Cold People is a captivating piece of
fiction, moving across different time periods – the past, present,
and future – ultimately, exploring the age-old question of human
nature: if everything changes, does anything or anyone really
change?’
*Glam Adelaide*
‘Phenomenally imagined, intricately woven, and masterfully brought
to life. It’s so descriptive that rarely have I read a book
where I’ve felt I am living side by side with the characters. As a
writer, Smith really is one of a kind’ John Marrs, author
of The One
‘Cold People is a vastly ambitious novel, tackling the
weightiest questions of our time in a form that rarely loses the
tension of a thriller, despite the complexity of its subject
matter’ Observer
‘A page-turner… These are chewy and worthwhile themes, and Cold
People cleverly distils them to the point where they play out, and
reach a satisfying climax, at human scale… Cold People will
entertain and impress’ The Times
‘A cinematic epic of global cataclysm and extraterrestrials… Themes
of love, family and belonging are writ large… It’s the spectacular
world-building, and creature-building, of the novel that’s most
absorbing’ Daily Mail
‘Chilling in so many ways’ LA Times
‘Cinematic... Natural selection is magnificent in the abstract,
when it works over millennia, but seeing it sped up to take place
in a single lifetime, as Smith vividly imagines, exposes its
brutality’ Washington Post
‘A zany, wildly gripping, dark futuristic fantasy that
achieves escapist lift-off [and] recalls H.P. Lovecraft and Mary
Shelley’s Frankenstein. I loved this wild, imaginative,
fast moving book and can’t wait to see the inevitable screen
adaptation’ Vogue
‘What lines, if any, shouldn’t be crossed to save humanity from
extinction? That question is at the heart of this stunning
post-apocalyptic thriller from bestseller Smith... The central
story line, a clever homage to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein,
unfolds in a way to ensure readers become attached to Echo and her
family. Smith, the author of brilliant historical and
psychological suspense novels, shows his range is even broader in
this triumph of imagination and empathy’ Publishers Weekly
‘Fascinating... a propulsive ride [that] unfolds at a galloping
pace through a well-built world’ Christian Science Monitor
‘A brilliantly conceived post-apocalyptic story that
tackles a well-worn subject (a desperate race to save humanity)
from a new and absolutely captivating angle. Smith’s
near-future world is wonderfully imaginative and rigorously
detailed, the kind of made-up place that feels viscerally
real. A real treat for fans of post-apocalyptic
fiction’ Booklist
‘Smith’s latest combines a number of electrifying sci-fi set pieces
with a breathtaking insight into the human instinct to love life
and each other, no matter the cost... A speculative
masterpiece that will resonate with fans of Emily St. John Mandel,
Kazuo Ishiguro, and Jeff VanderMeer’ Library Journal
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