ISBN 0-356-12402-9 (UK hbk), 0-812-50267-1 (US pbk)

"Icehenge... stands at the north pole of the planet Pluto -- a giant's dance of ice frozen harder than stone, harder than steel. Each slab towers two hundred feet above the crater-pocked surface; the one in the center bears an inscription in Sanskrit.

"The first mission to Pluto found it there already, waiting for them.

"Is it a starlit message from an alien race? Or does it mark a human mystery? For there was one ship that might have passed this way, forgotten decades ago -- if the crew survived. If the ship existed at all..." [jacket blurb, US pbk, 1990]

"[Icehenge is] a remarkable thriller in the tradition of archaeological SF, which replaces Arthur C.Clarke-type mysticism with the much more satisfying perspective of human political history. Readers who know only Robinson's unique Orange County trilogy will be surprised by this change of pace, in which his deeper ongoing themes and concerns find a different kind of narrative expression. One of the best and most exciting SF novels in years!" --Frederic Jameson.

"An intricate and elegant exploration of the problems of mind and memory..." --Samuel R.Delany.