The World in Winter Author:John Christopher The terrorizing story of what happens when a new Ice Age devastates the Northern Hemisphere, when civilization disappears into a voiceless polar night, when men and women turn into wolf packs in their agonized struggle for survival... — The Fratellini Winter they had called it, after the Italian scientist who had first detected the decline ... more »in solar radiation. The seasons pass and the cold bites ever harder. The Thames freezes over, stocks of food and fuel run low, and London falls under martial law. That first arctic winter, it seems, was only the beginning, as the whole of Europe lies under snow. Months pass and the arctic weather remains.
It gradually becomes clear that the world's climate has changed permanently and humanity must adapt to survive in the brutal new conditions. As the northern hemisphere nations fall into chaos and barbarism, with packs of men roaming like wolves through the frozen wastelands, citizens flee south to Africa and South America.
Journalist Andrew Leedon is one of the lucky ones who escaped in time, swapping London for the white refugee slums of habitable Nigeria. Horrified by conditions and determined to act, Leedon makes a desperate plan to return and reclaim the dangerous wilderness of his abandoned country...
Also published as: The Long Winter. John Christopher, pseudonym of Christopher Samuel Youd.« less