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The winter this year and last night’s snow reminded me of a book I read last year, but neglected to add to my Goodreads library. I purchased it at the Athens-Clark County Library book sale. 🙂 The Sixth Winter by Douglas Orgill and John Gribbin was published in 1979. Here’s the description from the back cover:
For five years, each winter has been colder, longer, icier. For the first time in centuries, packs of hungry wolves are roaming in from the wilderness, ferociously attacking anyone in their path. Huge tornadoes of ice known only to the Eskimos as the legendary Dancers, swoop down on the northern hemisphere, leaving enormous glaciers in fields, rivers, and cities.
For years, American scientist Dr. William Stovin has been warning people, including the President, that these catastrophic weather changes are moving south. Now snow is engulfing the United States. Ice covers skyscrapers. Cities must by evacuated. Worldwide starvation is imminent. Another ice age is devastating the earth. It’s the sixth winter.
The book might be a little out-of-date for some folks, but I enjoyed it a lot. As I read it, I imagined would it might have been like if that had happened in 1978/79, when I was only 2-3 years old. If you enjoy science fiction that blends science and myth, with a dash of the apocalypse, find a copy and curl up by the fire to read this book.
Amanda Makepeace's Imagination Run Amok 
This post—for some reason—reminds me of the book, ‘the Brief History of the Dead.’ Have you read it? If you haven’t then I recommend it.
Ta!
Jan
Oh, I have not! Must look that one up, thanks!
Yeah, it’s a good un … but I know how long your list is already … you go go GO! :O)
Just wondering how accurate the science is in the book? I get a kick out of reading some of my old science/paleontology books and see how the “science” has changed.
I know some of it is based in actual science, because I learned it at University, but it was written in the late 1970’s and some of that science was matured and changed. It’s still fiction too!