Inter Ice Age 4 by Kobo Abé

Set in a near-future world facing environmental and social collapse, the novel follows a protagonist drawn into a secret initiative to deliberately trigger a new ice age as a radical, technocratic solution. As the project progresses, layers of bureaucracy, political manipulation, and scientific hubris are exposed, while the narrator’s sense of identity and sanity frays amid surveillance, paranoia, and interpersonal breakdown. Blending speculative science with political satire and existential unease, the story examines the moral and human costs of attempts to control nature and engineer society.