The myth of legendary lovers, as set in Antarctica by science fiction grandmaster René Barjavel. A timeless and beloved French classic.

In the white Antarctic silence, a French polar expedition is busy taking core samples that go down over 3,000 feet, or over 900,000 years… That's when the unthinkable happens: probes detect a signal from deep down in the earth. There's a transmitter deep in the ice. When the news breaks, media from the world over come rushing for a scoop: "A City at the South Pole," "Beating Hearts Beneath the Ice"! What will the world's scientists discover when they start drilling? A science fiction epic, a timeless love song: La Nuit des temps is all of these and more!