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"Our Lady of the Ice" by Cassandra Rose Clarke is a mystery novel set in the domed city of Hope City, Antarctica. The story follows the lives of four main characters: Eliana, a female private investigator striving to leave the city; Diego, her boyfriend involved in the criminal underworld; Marianella, a wealthy aristocrat with a dangerous secret; and Sofia, an evolving pleasure android from the city's past amusement park days. As Eliana takes on a risky assignment from Marianella, she delves into a web of factions, secrets, and the true power dynamics controlled by the androids in the city. The novel is praised for its well-woven mystery, switching points of view, and the undercurrent of philosophy regarding humanity and artificial intelligence.
From The Publisher:
The Yiddish Policeman's Union meets The Windup Girl when a female PI goes up against a ruthless gangster-just as both humans and robots agitate for independence in an Argentinian colony in Antarctica.
In Argentine Antarctica, Eliana Gomez is the only female PI in Hope City-a domed colony dependent on electricity (and maintenance robots) for heat, light, and survival in the icy deserts of the continent. At the center is an old amusement park-now home only to the androids once programmed to entertain-but Hope City's days as a tourist destination are long over. Now the City produces atomic power for the mainland while local factions agitate for independence and a local mobster, Ignacio Cabrera, runs a brisk black market trade in illegally imported food.
Eliana doesn't care about politics. She doesn't even care much that her boyfriend, Diego, works as muscle for Cabrera. She just wants to save enough money to escape Hope City. But when an aristocrat hires Eliana to protect an explosive personal secret, Eliana finds herself caught up in the political tensions threatening to tear Hope City apart. In the clash of backstabbing politicians, violent freedom fighters, a gangster who will stop at nothing to protect his interests, and a newly sentient robot underclass intent on a very different independence, Eliana finds her job coming into deadly conflict with Diego's-just as the electricity keeping Hope City from freezing begins to fail...
With the inner workings of the mob combined with the story of a revolution, "Clarke brings novelty and delight to steampunk Antarctica in this complex and lovely mystery" ( Publishers Weekly , starred review). Our Lady of the Ice questions what it means to be human, what it means to be free, and whether we're ever able to transcend our pasts and our programming to find true independence.
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