#761 Polynia- China Mieville
“They’d started as wisps, anomalies noticed only by weather watchers. Slowly, they’d grown, started to glint in the early-winter afternoon. They solidified, there sides becoming more faceted, more opaquely white. They started to shed shadows…Social media went mad with theory. The things were dismissed as mirages, hoaxes, advertising gimmicks for a TV show. They were heralded as angels, abominated as an alien attack or a new superweapon.”
Thus fifteen years ago, strange ice-bergs appeared over London, impossibly levitating in mid air, 9/10th of which are not to be seen. At first they are the only thing the city can think about. What are they? Where are they from? What do they mean? Eventually curious climbers venture into the unknown never to be seen again. They still float there as life goes on, one more unexplained mystery for humans to ponder and fight over, selfishly wanting to know its secrets.
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