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ICE STATION
TEMPLE
CONTEST
AREA 7
SCARECROW
HOVER CAR RACER
HELL ISLAND (FOR BOOKS ALIVE, 2005)
SEVEN ANCIENT WONDERS
MATTHEW
REILLY
ICE
STATION
This is a work of fiction. Characters, corporations, institutions and organisations mentioned in this novel are either the product of the author’s imagination or, if real, used fictitiously without any intent to describe actual conduct.
Author photo credit: Starshots, Sydney
First published 1998 in Macmillan by Pan Macmillan Australia Pty Limited
This Pan edition published 1999 by Pan Macmillan Pty Limited
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Reprinted 1999 (eight times), 2000 (five times), 2001 (four times), 2002 (twice), 2003 (twice), 2004 (twice), 2005 (twice), 2006 (twice)
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Reilly, Matthew, 1974-.
Ice station.
ISBN 0 330 36089 2.
I. Title.
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Ice Station
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For Natalie
Acknowledgements
Special thanks to Natalie Freer – the most genuine and giving person I know. To Stephen Reilly, my brother and my good friend, and my loyal supporter, even from thousands of miles away. To Mum for her comments on the text and to Dad for his woeful title suggestions and to both of them for their love and support. And, lastly, thanks to everyone at Pan (in particular, my editors, Cate Paterson and Madonna Duffy, first, for ‘discovering’ me and second, for enduring all of my crazy ideas). To all of you, never underestimate the power of your encouragement.
INTRODUCTION
From: Kendrick, Jonathan
The Cambridge Lectures: Antarctica –
The Living Continent
(Lecture delivered at Trinity College, 17 March, 1995)
‘Imagine, if you can, a continent that for one quarter of the year, doubles in size. A continent in a constant state of motion, motion that is undetectable to the human eye, but that is devastating nonetheless.
Imagine if you were to look down from the heavens at this vast, snow-covered mass. You would see the signatures of motion: the sweeping waves of the glaciers, bending in curves around mountains, falling down slopes like cascading waterfalls captured on film.
This is the “awesome inertia” that Eugene Linden spoke of. And if we,