About the book: 1964 / The novel "The Ice is Returning" by the popular Soviet science fiction writer Alexander Kazantsev is a pamphlet novel directed against the Cold War. Despite all the fantastic nature of the events, the fate of the heroes whom the reader sees, loves or hates along with the author, fantastic, sometimes terrible pictures are perceived as reality itself. The novel sounds a passionate protest against the dangerous path of nuclear provocations, against the use of human genius for criminal anti-human purposes. At the same time, the novel is permeated with an ardent belief in the victory of reason on Earth. Being an independent work, it completes the trilogy begun by the novels “Polar Dream” and “Arctic Bridge”».