“The Earth didn’t end with fire—but it didn’t freeze either. It melted.” — Marion Zimmer Bradley When climate catastrophe strikes, the world doesn’t shatter overnight. It seeps, it swells, it drowns—until everything familiar becomes strange. Year of the Big Thaw is a visionary tale from acclaimed author Marion Zimmer Bradley, set in a future where the polar ice caps have collapsed, and humanity teeters on the edge of transformation. In the wake of the rising oceans, something else arrives—unexpected, unexplainable, and not entirely human. This is not just a story about the end of the world, but about what might come after. A bold blend of climate fiction and cosmic imagination, Year of the Big Thaw dares to ask: how far can the Earth change before we must change with it?