<B>* “A zany, wildly gripping, dark futuristic fantasy.” —<I>Vogue</I>, Most Anticipated Books of the Year * “Fascinating…a propulsive ride…through a well-built world.” —<I>The Christian Science Monitor *</I></B><BR><BR><B>From the brilliant, bestselling author of <I>Child 44</I> and creator of the FX series <I>Class of ’09</I> comes a “cinematic” (<I>The Washington Post</I>), “captivating…[and] “brilliantly conceived postapocalyptic story” (<I>Booklist</I>, starred review) about an Antarctic colony of global apocalypse survivors seeking to reinvent civilization under the most extreme conditions imaginable.</B><BR><BR>The world has fallen. Without warning, a mysterious and omnipotent force has claimed the planet for their own. There are no negotiations, no demands, no reasons given for their actions. All they have is a message: humanity has thirty days to reach the one place on Earth where they