Green Earth by Kim Stanley Robinson (English) Paperback Book

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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.

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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: he's 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 who's 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.

Notes

Takes the stories told in Forty Signs Of Rain, Fifty Degrees Below and Sixty Days & Counting, and compresses them into a single volume.

Author Biography

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.

Review

'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 TIMESPraise 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

Long Description

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: he's 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 who's 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.

Review Quote

'An elegance that manages to contain a what-happens-next vigour... It makes astonishing connections'THE TIMES 'The Brave New World of global warming' GUARDIAN 'The ultimate in future history' Daily Mail "An unabashed novel of ideas that is also a social comedy." Washington Post

Feature

* Winner of the Hugo Award, one of the most prestigious awards in SF. * Sales of the Mars trilogy have reached over 400,000 copies. * Kim Stanley Robinson was named a 'hero of the environment' by TIME Magazine * Stan Robinson's audience is widening rapidly - picking up general interest readers and non-fiction readers because of the speculative but scientifically plausible nature of his work Competition: The Corporation Wars; Europe At Midnight (The Fractured Europe Sequence Book 2). A. L. Michael;Ken MacLeod; Dave Hutchinson;

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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: he's 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 who's 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. Gold title * Winner of the Hugo Award, one of the most prestigious awards in SF. * Sales of the Mars trilogy have reached over 400,000 copies. * Kim Stanley Robinson was named a 'hero of the environment' by TIME Magazine * Stan Robinson's audience is widening rapidly - picking up general interest readers and non-fiction readers because of the speculative but scientifically plausible nature of his work Competition: Tom Wolfe, Gore Vidal, Michael Crichton

Details ISBN0008139547 Author Kim Stanley Robinson Language English Year 2015 ISBN-10 0008139547 ISBN-13 9780008139544 Format Paperback Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Media Book Pages 1088 DEWEY 813.54 Publication Date 2015-11-05 UK Release Date 2015-11-05 Imprint HarperVoyager Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Alternative 9780008139551 Audience General AU Release Date 2015-10-18 NZ Release Date 2015-10-26 We've got this

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