Try Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials series -- the first book, The Golden Compass, takes place in an alternate-reality artic region. Lots of wolves and fur coats and stuff.
I saw Phillip Pullman read at Books of Wonder in New York on Halloween, and it was great. Apparently he does all of his first drafts longhand, which is amazing.
Kelly
In a message dated Mon, 18 Dec 2000 4:37:19 PM Eastern Standard Time, Amessygurl@aol.com writes:
<< hello! i'm trying to find good books about cold places -i mean fictional novels, not travel guides, etc. - does anyone know any good books set in cold climates such as scandinavia, siberia, newfoundland, alaska, etc., or even sci-fi-type cold places such as are found in ursula k. leguin's _left hand of darkness_?(even if a place doesn't seem especially cold to you, chances are it would to me, a southerner from virginia, where we panic if there's a half-inch of snow, so take nothing for granted:) i love science-fiction, and books set in cold places are like real-world-science-fiction to me, b/c i can't imagine living somewhere where it snows more than a foot high!:) and of course winter is the best season to read these kinds of books... some of the novels i've found so far are _smilla's sense of snow_(set in greenland and denmark), _the greenlanders_(by jane smiley), and _the shipping news_(set in newfoundland), and then of course there's _julie of the wolves_...
take care,
cameron
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