It’s an average day, much like today. Suddenly, large spherical ships are hovering in the skies all over the earth, seemingly defying the law of gravity and the movement of most aircraft we have made. Our phones, televisions, all communication devices share the same message, in all the languages of humanity: you have thirty days to get to Antarctica. If you are anywhere else, you will die. How would humanity react? How would you react?

The first section of the novel is a fast-paced race of survival, as we follow characters trying to find a way to make the journey as fast as possible. Nations mobilize, but as expected, mostly those of wealth and power are selected for limited spaces. We follow some specific characters who will later play an important part in the future of the Antarctic colony.

Fast forward twenty years, and the scientists have been working, with their extremely limited resources, to promote the survival of humanity. Due to plummeting fertility and childhood survival, everyone realizes that what was formerly unthinkable has become the only means of humanity’s survival— genetic manipulation to create new human life forms that will help humans to survive, and ultimately replace our species. Since the Chinese have illegally continued to perform such research when it was deemed illegal worldwide, they take the lead in developing new species using human genes with parts of various animal genes, creating unique species that thrive under Antartica’s conditions.

The remainder of the book becomes a contest of survival in which humans are not the alpha species, but rather subordinate to our creation. Will the new “cold people” want to help humans, or will they feel under no obligation to assist our weaker species? Will Darwin’s law prevail? Or were we so arrogant to believe that a superior species would feel obliged to help the weaker one? Do cold people have any moral obligation to help? This is a fun, exciting survival story, destined for Netflix, I’m sure.