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Author: Vladimir Sorokin
Year: 2002
Type: NOVEL
Series: Ice
Series Number: 1
ISFDB Record Number: 759709
Synopsis: US publisher's description: "A cult of blond-haired, blue-eyed murderers are going around Moscow kidnapping people, tying them up, and then beating them on the chest with hammers made out of ice (kept in portable refrigerators) from a Siberian meteorite. The purpose of this injurious behavior is to awaken the celestial beings who are residing within them; however, only a tiny percentage of the victims survive this painful "rebirth." The survivors are given new names, a healthy bank account, and are sent out to "awaken" more of their kind."
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Variant Titles:
- Ice (2007) - Vladimir Sorokin
Publications:
- Led, (2002, Vladimir Sorokin, publ. Moscow: Ad Marginem, 5-93321-039-0, 317pp, hc)
- Trilogiya, (2006, Vladimir Sorokin, publ. Zakharov, 5-8159-0567-4, 684pp, hc, omni)
- Ice, (2007, Vladimir Sorokin, publ. New York Review of Books, 1-59017-195-0, $23.95, 321pp, hc)
- The Ice Trilogy, (Mar 2011, Vladimir Sorokin, publ. NYRB Classics (NYRB Classics), 978-1-59017-386-2, $19.95, 704pp, tp, omni)
Reviews:
- Review by Norman Spinrad (2008) in Asimov's Science Fiction, October-November 2008
- Review by Michael Froggatt (2011) in Strange Horizons, 16 May 2011