You can count me amongst those who used to assume that this song was one of the many heavy metal songs to be inspired by a classic work of science fiction.  After all, the song shares its title with Robert A. Heinlein’s classic novel.

However, the song has nothing to do with Heinlein’s novel.  Instead, it is about an Arctic explorer who falls into the ice and whose frozen body is found 100 years later.  It was inspired by a conversation that Adrian Smith had with an actual explorer who once discovered a body preserved in the Arctic ice.

Julian Caidan also directed the video for Robert Palmer’s Early In The Morning.

Enjoy!