Ice

Hi, I'm Ralph, and this is the Fixplasm podcast, where I talk about fiction and role-playing games.

Now, after the last episode on J.G. Ballard's early climate fiction, I'm continuing the theme with Anna Cavan's Ice.

So I looked for this book after I bought a pencil case in the Imaginarium bookshop in Limington on the way back from the Isle of Wight.

Not that I needed more stationery, of course, but the pencil cases and the wallets and the other bits and pieces, they were all styled to look like a row of book spines on a bookshelf.

And of the books on the pencil case I chose, one of them was Ice, and I really knew very little about the book.

I certainly never read it.

So I looked into it, and Ice was Cavan's final novel before her death one year later, and it was also her first successful novel.

And it was published in 1967, with a later foreword by Christopher Priest in 2006, which is automatically a free pass from me.