Series
Effective Engineering Solutions
Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child · 35 novels · 2 short stories · 1995–2026
The Ice Limit follows a team hired by an eccentric billionaire to recover what looks like the largest meteorite ever found, off a remote island near Cape Horn, only to discover, as they flee across the Antarctic seas aboard a retrofitted tanker, that they've actually excavated something alive. Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child wrote it as a standalone techno-thriller in 2000; it later fed into their separate Gideon Crew series rather than getting a direct sequel of its own.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
The order the books came out.
- Pendergast(31 works)
- Nora Kelly(6 works)
- Gideon Crew(5 works)
Map
Effective Engineering Solutions at the centre, 3 subseries around it, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1990s3
- 2000s9
- 2010s16
- 2020s9
Shape
35 novels · 2 short stories
2 authors
reads like:thriller & suspensemurder investigationnorth americacontemporarytenseadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 86% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book35 of 37 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Reliquarydarkest
- The Pharaoh Keybrightest
- Still Life with Crowscalmest
- The Ice Limitmost intense