Science fiction set in Siberia

The very conjunction of science fiction and a Siberian setting would be enough to put Marcel Theroux’s forthcoming book on my list, but Kevin Rabalais’s first-rate interview in this weekend’s The Australian makes the decision even easier. I first heard of Marcel (son of famous novelist Paul) in connection with his climate change doco, The End of the World As We Know It, which played on free-to-air TV here but was so unpromoted that I missed it. He’s done a number of documentaries, some set in Russia, all of which, frustratingly, I’ve failed to see. Now Far North (coming out in Australia next month) is a sci-fi/western cross about a post-global-warming survivor in remote northern Siberia. I’ll be watching bookshop shelves for it.