WHAT THE ICE REMEMBERS

von Elias Marrow

122 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Some men run to the ends of the earth. Julian Ashe ran to the end of the solar system.Fifty-one years old and utterly alone, Julian is the sole keeper of Herschel Station - a research outpost built inside the vast, staring crater of Mimas, Saturn's smallest and strangest moon. His job is simple: listen to thirty kilometers of ancient ice for signs of the ocean everyone once swore couldn't exist beneath it. His real reason for coming is not simple at all.Back on Earth, Julian was a respected structural engineer - a man who trusted numbers the way other people trust faith. A man who built his whole life on factors of safety, on the conviction that if you calculated carefully enough, nothing important would ever be allowed to fall. Then one decision, made on an ordinary Thursday with a debate tournament to get to, set something terrible in motion. What followed cost him his career, his marriage, and - on a night of black ice he will spend the rest of his life trying to survive remembering - his daughter.Now there is only the ice, the silence, and the slow, patient work of listening to a moon nobody thought was worth naming properly. But something is stirring far below the surface - in the ancient water thirty kilometers down, and in the memories Julian has spent three years refusing to let himself fully feel. As a tremor cracks through the crust beneath his boots and a message finally arrives from the wife he left behind, Julian is forced to do the one thing his entire career trained him never to do: stop trusting the calculation, and start facing the room.What the Ice Remembers is a quiet, aching novel about grief, guilt, and the long, unglamorous work of learning to forgive yourself - told in the hushed, confessional voice of a man with nowhere left to look but inward. Moving between the frozen present of an alien moon and the warmer, more devastating landscape of memory, it asks what we owe the dead, what we owe the living, and whether anything broken badly enough ever truly stays that way.Perfect for readers of introspective, character-driven literary fiction with a speculative edge - fans of quiet, emotionally resonant science fiction that lingers in the mind rather than in the action, and anyone who has ever needed distance from a life in order to finally understand it.Some things that matter never really disappear. They just wait, patient and exact, for someone willing to look closely enough to find them again.

• Themen: Belletristik Science-Fiction Hard Science Fiction
• ISBN: 9784019031330
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 15.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: ELIAS MARROW