I'm trying to remember the title of a science fiction novel I read years ago about a frozen planet onto which some Earth explorers crash land. The natives don't smile except as an act of aggression(?) and the humans and aliens build a large ice ship with which to explore the planet. There was also a sequel to it, in which they explored even farther afield on the planet.
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Were the natives descended from a bird-like species? – Acccumulation Jun 26 '18 at 20:38
This sounds a lot like Alan Dean Foster's Icerigger.
A ship is crashed on Tran-Ky-Ky and Ethan Fortune and Skua September lead the humans to a base using an iceraft. The sequels are Mission to Moulokin and The Deluge Drivers.
The point is made explicitly that the native Tran do not show their teeth when smiling.
answered Jun 26 '18 at 20:14
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I concurr. I re-read these books recently. Everything matches the question here, apart from the "exporers crash landing" part, it was a couple of criminals, the people they kidnap, and acouple of innocent parties who ejected from a larger ship and crash landed their escape pod. But yes, this is the answer. – user71418 Jun 27 '18 at 6:57
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That's it!!!! Thank you so much for the answer! I didn't even know there were 2 sequels. – Alice Jun 28 '18 at 22:49
