Stories set in Antarctica
Tales that happen at, around, on or beneath the frigid chilly Antarctic continent describing intensely cold temperatures, ferocious winds or icy waters!!
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list created May 15th, 2012
by Sydney Squidney (votes) .
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Pym is definitely Antarctic. The Verne up there is its sequel, even, I think.I cannot for the life of me remember whether Frankenstein was Antarctic or not.
Bri wrote: "Pym is definitely Antarctic. The Verne up there is its sequel, even, I think.I cannot for the life of me remember whether Frankenstein was Antarctic or not."
I learn something new every day.
Bri wrote: "I cannot for the life of me remember whether Frankenstein was Antarctic or not."Hale yeah, it starts there! That's where the monster winds up too. Poor monster.
ETA Wait, it's the NORTH Pole. I just woke up, I was an English major, I got lost in my hometown, what do you want from me, &c &c.
Moira wrote: "Bri wrote: "I cannot for the life of me remember whether Frankenstein was Antarctic or not."Hale yeah, it starts there! That's where the monster winds up too. Poor monster.
ETA Wait, it's the NO..."
Happens to the worst of us.
Sorry about that guys, when I created the list, I really had Frankenstein in my head as starting in the south pole, my bad!
Sydney wrote: "Sorry about that guys, when I created the list, I really had Frankenstein in my head as starting in the south pole, my bad!"Instantly forgiveable.... A quibble of Poe's Pym: Does not A. G. Pym discover that Earth is a torus, both poles of which do not exist ?
Thom wrote: "A quibble of Poe's Pym: Does not A. G. Pym discover that Earth is a torus, both poles of which do not exist?"I added it. As I recall they actually did cross some sort of ice field before reaching the island -- and isn't that described as being NEAR the (suspected) location of the South Pole at least?
Themis-Athena wrote: "Thom wrote: "A quibble of Poe's Pym: Does not A. G. Pym discover that Earth is a torus, both poles of which do not exist?"I added it. As I recall they actually did cross some sort of ice field be..."
Please tell me they didn't have to eat their sled dogs to make it.
Thom wrote: "Bri wrote: "Pym is definitely Antarctic. The Verne up there is its sequel, even, I think."Pym is a sequel to Poe's
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket & Related Tales.
Miriam wrote: "Pym is a sequel to Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket & Related Tales."
That's the Pym I meant! As shorthand. Either Pym wasn't up there then or - more than likely - I glossed over it entirely (MINE are the entries that matter, MINE).
I wonder if Verne's Antarctic Mystery is compatible with Johnson's Pym. Duelling sequels!
Yes, the impermanence of internet text is confusing sometimes. wonder if Verne's Antarctic Mystery is compatible with Johnson's Pym. Duelling sequels!
Or you could turn to Pride and Prejudice and have a sequels gang war.
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