Fragment Contributor(s): Russell, Craig (Author) |
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ISBN: 1771871113 ISBN-13: 9781771871112 Publisher: Thistledown Press OUR PRICE: $17.96 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2016 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Science Fiction - Action & Adventure |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 2016435550 |
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.5" W x 8.4" (0.65 lbs) 240 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: When avalanching glaciers thrust a massive Antarctic ice sheet into the open ocean, the captain of an atomic submarine must risk his vessel to rescue the survivors of a smashed polar research station; in Washington the President's top advisor scrambles to spin the disaster to suit his master's political aims; and meanwhile two intrepid newsmen sail south into the storm-lashed Drake Passage to discover the truth. |
Contributor Bio(s): Russell, Craig: - Craig Russell s novel, Black Bottle Man won the 2011 American Moonbeam Award gold medal for Young Adult Fantasy. It was also a finalist for the Canadian Prix Aurora Award for best English Science Fiction or Fantasy Novel, as well as for two Manitoba Book Awards in the same year. Russell has directed a variety of theatre productions ranging from The Sound of Music to Romeo and Juliet. His short play, The Unintended Consequences of Love was performed at the 2006 Carol Shields Festival of New Works. His stage adaptation of Black Bottle Man was performed in Brandon and Winnipeg in 2015. By day, Craig Russell is a lawyer and supervises the land titles system for five-thousand square miles of southwestern Manitoba. For the past 26 years he and his wife have been restoring Johnson House, their 1906 Victorian heritage home in Brandon. Russell grew up on a farm near Carman, MB with his four brothers and five sisters. |