Ranting and Reading Collective discussion

Found this proper spooky and atmospheric - although not surprising as overwintering in Svalbard is a lot like overwintering here on the mountain I reckon ;)

This really starkly reminded me that I've not read a book without a female protagonist in a long time, and I can't recall no women at all!

I found the story intriguing and gripping, I wanted to know what was going on, whilst also knowing the human brain has the capacity to imagine beyond our understanding.

It did also make me reflect a lot on a short story I read recently by Ursula K Le Guin - Sur (in collection called Space Crone), which is alternative history of women adventurers heading to the south pole, and some of the gender politics in the commentary from that was really present in this book, as if the both were not fiction but written in response to each other.