Green Earth

(Paperback)

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GREEN EARTH takes the stories first told in FORTY SIGNS OF RAIN, FIFTY DEGREES BELOW and SIXTY DAYS AND COUNTING and combines them in a fully updated, compressed and compelling single volume.
Catastrophe is in the air. Increasingly strange weather events are pummelling the Earth. When the Gulf Stream shuts down and the Antarctic ice sheet starts melting, climate extremes multiply, and some winters hit like an ice age.

New U.S. President Phil Chase is on a mission: hes determined to solve climate change. His science advisor, Frank Vanderwal, is a bit more messed up. When massive floods hit Washington, Frank finds himself living in a treehouse and in love with a woman whos definitely not what she seems, one who will draw him into the shadowy world of Homeland Security, and other, blacker agencies.

Only science can save the day. Frank knows he has to find a way to save the world so that science can proceed.

Reviews

One of the finest working novelists in any genre
GUARDIAN

'If I had to choose one writer whose work will set the standard for science fiction in the future, it would be Kim Stanley Robinson
NEW YORK TIMES

Praise for the Science in the Capital series:

The BRAVE NEW WORLD of global warming A narrative that is rich in closely observed characters and a wonderfully vivid sense of place depicts a society sleep-walking towards the abyss
GUARDIAN

A funny, convincing, intelligent book
INDEPENDENT

Finely written and persuasively paints what may be if climate change happens the way so many scientists fear
SFX

Author Bio

Kim Stanley Robinson was born in 1952. After travelling and working around the world, he settled in his beloved California. He is widely regarded as the finest science fiction writer working today, noted as much for the verisimilitude of his characters as the meticulously researched hard science of his work. He has won just about every major SF award there is to win.