Forty Signs of Rain
Author: Kim Stanley Robinson
It’s hot in Washington. No sign of rain. The world’s climates are changing, catastrophe beckons, but no one in power is noticing. Yet. Tom Wolfe meets Michael Crichton in this highly topical and witty and entertaining science thriller. 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….Read More
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