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Forty Signs of Rain
by Kim Stanley Robinson
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. But as everyday heroes fight to align the awesome forces of nature with the extraordinary march of technology, fate puts an unusual twist on their efforts--one that will place them at the heart of an unavoidable storm.
Year: 2004
Genre: Eco-Disaster
Fifty Degrees Below
by Kim Stanley Robinson
When the storm got bad, Frank Vanderwal was in his office at the National Science Foundation. When it was over, large chunks of San Diego had eroded into the sea, and D.C. was underwater. Everything Frank and his colleagues feared had culminated in this disaster. And now the world was looking to them to fix it. But even as D.C. bails itself out, a more extreme climate change looms. The melting polar ice caps are shutting down the warm Gulf Stream waters--meaning Ice Age conditions could return. And the last
Year: 2005
Genre: Eco-Disaster
Sixty Days and Counting
by Kim Stanley Robinson
By the time Phil Chase is elected president, the world's climate is far on its way to irreversible change. Food scarcity, housing shortages, diminishing medical care, and vanishing species are just some of the consequences. The erratic winter the Washington, D.C., area is experiencing is another grim reminder of a global weather pattern gone haywire: bone-chilling cold one day, balmy weather the next.
Year: 2007
Genre: Eco-Disaster, Hard SF, Near Future, Political Thriller
Titles
| Year | Title | ||||||||||
| 2004 | Forty Signs of Rain | by Kim Stanley Robinson | |||||||||
| 2005 | Fifty Degrees Below | by Kim Stanley Robinson | |||||||||
| 2007 | Sixty Days and Counting | by Kim Stanley Robinson | |||||||||