In a near-future world spiraling into climate collapse, Ice (2018) opens in the dead of winter—but this isn’t any winter. A sudden and unexplained drop in global temperatures has turned continents into frozen wastelands. Cities crumble beneath the weight of relentless snowfall, and humanity teeters on the brink of extinction. Amid this frozen apocalypse, a fractured team of scientists and survivors ventures north to investigate the source of the anomaly. Among them is Dr. Mara Ellison, a climatologist haunted by the disappearance of her brother during the first wave of the freeze. What they find buried beneath the permafrost is older than civilization—and far more dangerous than ice.
As they press deeper into a forgotten Arctic research station swallowed by glaciers, the group uncovers secret recordings from the 1960s: whispers of an experiment meant to harness geothermal energy gone wrong. The Earth’s balance was tipped, and something ancient was released—a sentient, crystalline force living beneath the polar crust. It feeds on heat. It spreads cold. And now, it’s waking up. The team soon realizes they are not alone in the snowbound ruins. The ice moves. It listens. And one by one, members of the team vanish into the white silence.
Mara must confront not only the elements but the truth about her brother’s mission: he had discovered the sentient frost years before and tried to warn the world. But no one believed him. Now, she faces the impossible choice—to try and contain the growing wave of cold or destroy the last hope of reversing it. Armed with an unstable prototype thermal core and dwindling time, Mara leads a desperate effort to reach the geothermal heart of the station, where the frozen entity pulses like a living glacier, spreading its will through the snow itself.
In the explosive final act, Mara sacrifices her return to activate the thermal detonation, buying Earth precious time. The ice recedes… slowly. Survivors emerge from bunkers across the world, breathing the first semi-warm air in years. But deep beneath the Arctic Circle, a single sliver of sentient frost glows, undisturbed, waiting. Ice (2018) is a chilling vision of survival, science, and sacrifice—a story that warns not only of the price of arrogance, but of the raw, ancient power that lies dormant beneath our feet. The cold is not just coming. The cold remembers.
