In a frozen future Earth, Konrad Arflane commands the Ice Spirit on a quest for the legendary city of New York. A chilling adventure of faith and discovery.
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In a frozen future Earth, Konrad Arflane commands the Ice Spirit on a quest for the legendary city of New York. A chilling adventure of faith and discovery.
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The Ice Schooner is Moorcock's high-fantasy retelling of Moby Dick, but without the two-hundred-odd-page "how to kill, skin, and eat a whale" interruption in Melville's bloated tome. Actually, it's not so much a retelling (as was, say, Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres a retelling of King Lear) as it is a retooling. Instead of a big whale, Konrad Arflane, the book's main character, is on a quest to find the ancient, legendary city of New York
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Romance & sex
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Central love story between protagonist and a married woman; she is viewed as property.
Violence & gore
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Ice whale hunting, revenge killings, and deaths during ice voyages.
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Religious content
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Cult of the Ice Mother; themes of faith, tradition, and loss of belief.
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Occult / demonology
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Political content
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Tension between rigid traditionalism and acceptance of a warming world.
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Abuse & suffering
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Female character treated as property and placed in damsel-in-distress role.
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