I read this sci-fi story, which I think was a standalone novel, in the late 1980's - and I don't think it was all that old then. The main character was solitary, at the start of story foraging in a snowed-under grocery store. His name may or may not be Starkman or Starmann; I seem to recall that his eyes were an unusual colour, maybe yellow or amber. The plot involved his DNA containing some kind of hidden message or instructions, put in his ancestor(s) many thousands of years earlier by a (crashed?) alien scientist. Now, others (&quot;bad guys&quot;) are looking for it, creating an artificial ice age (via a dust cloud between Earth and the sun, if memory serves) to drive humans to the equator, where they &quot;help&quot; with humanitarian efforts while actually looking for this DNA code. I read a ton of sci-fi stuff back then, so I may be getting things mixed up after this long, but the main plot is right. I'm in Canada, if that helps/matters.
I read this book in the mid-nineties, probably written in the 80s or 90s.  It’s set in the near future, where the world has experienced a sudden glaciation.  Most of the United States and Europe is now covered with ice.  Civilization has collapsed for the most part. The protagonist is a drifter with strange-colored eyes (yellow, I think).  Because of his weird eyes, he’s never really fit in anywhere.  He moves from place to place just trying to survive, but somehow he discovers that the new ice-age did not occur naturally.  It was engineered by extraterrestrials, to make their work easier.  They’re looking for the plans for a super-weapon - a weapon that can cause any star to go nova.  A rival group of aliens hid the plans for this weapon by encoding the information in the human genome millions of years ago.  The marker to identify humans who carry this gene is - you guessed it - yellow-colored eyes.
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