The Ice Schooner

The world lay frozen under a thousand feet of ice - and only in the Eight Cities of the Mato Grosso did men still live, hunting whales for meat and oil, following the creed of the Ice Mother which foretold the end of all life in ultimate cold.
But legend told of a city far to the north - fabled New York - whose towers rose above the ice and whose crypts held the forgotten lore that might bring warmth to Earth once again.