The bestselling author of the classic Mars trilogy and The Years of
Rice and Salt returns with a riveting new trilogy of cutting-edge
science, international politics, and the real-life ramifications of
global warming as they are played out in our nation's capital--and
in the daily lives of those at the center of the action. Hauntingly
realistic, here is a novel of the near future that is inspired by
scientific facts already making headlines.
When the Arctic ice pack was first measured in the 1950s, it
averaged thirty feet thick in midwinter. By the end of the century
it was down to fifteen. One August the ice broke. The next year the
breakup started in July. The third year it began in May. That was
last year.
It's an increasingly steamy summer in the nation's capital as
Senate environmental staffer Charlie Quibler cares for his young
son and deals with the frustrating politics of global warming.
Charlie must find a way to get a skeptical administration to act
before it's too late--and his progeny find themselves living in
Swamp World. But the political climate poses almost as great a
challenge as the environmental crisis when it comes to putting the
public good ahead of private gain.
While Charlie struggles to play politics, his wife, Anna, takes a
more rational approach to the looming crisis in her work at the
National Science Foundation. There a proposal has come in for a
revolutionary process that could solve the problem of global
warming--if it can be recognized in time. But when a race to
control the budding technology begins, the stakes only get higher.
As these everyday heroes fight to align the awesome forces of
nature with the extraordinary march of modern science, they are
unaware that fate is about to put an unusual twist on their
work--one that will place them at the heart of an unavoidable
storm.
With style, wit, and rare insight into our past, present, and
possible future, this captivating novel propels us into a world on
the verge of unprecedented change--in a time quite like our own.
Here is Kim Stanley Robinson at his visionary best, offering a
gripping cautionary tale of progress--and its price--as only he can
tell it.
"From the Hardcover edition."
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