Kim Stanley Robinson · 2003 · Novel
Setting: near future
Series: Science in the Capital — #1
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.
Source: OpenLibrary
Tags: LegislatorsFictionScience FictionBusiness intelligenceScientistsFiction, thrillers, generalFiction, espionageFiction, technologicalWashington (d.c.), fictionNew York Times reviewed
isfdb_id: 155217
openlibrary_id: OL81653W
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