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shellmidwife, here's a link to an interview with Kim Stanley Robinson, who wrote the Mars Trilogy, Antartica, Years of Rice and Salt, and is currently working on a trilogy about global warming:
Future tense
September 14, 2005
Sci-fi author Kim Stanley Robinson's latest novel, Fifty Degrees Below, is set in a flood-ridden America facing the consequences of global warming. Sarah Crown talks to him about climate change, the power of science and the trials of living under 'the worst president in American history'
In the wake of a tropical storm, a low-lying American city is drowning. Buildings are demolished and bridges knocked out; tens of thousands of people are without electricity or fresh water; hospitals are bursting at the seams with the sick and the dead.
Sound familiar? Of course it does. But this isn't a retelling of the last few weeks' events in the United States, it is the opening of Fifty Degrees Below, the second volume in science fiction maven Kim Stanley Robinson's latest trilogy on climate change. And the drowned city isn't New Orleans: it's Washington DC. ( Read more... )
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shellmidwife, here's a link to an interview with Kim Stanley Robinson, who wrote the Mars Trilogy, Antartica, Years of Rice and Salt, and is currently working on a trilogy about global warming:Future tense
September 14, 2005
Sci-fi author Kim Stanley Robinson's latest novel, Fifty Degrees Below, is set in a flood-ridden America facing the consequences of global warming. Sarah Crown talks to him about climate change, the power of science and the trials of living under 'the worst president in American history'
In the wake of a tropical storm, a low-lying American city is drowning. Buildings are demolished and bridges knocked out; tens of thousands of people are without electricity or fresh water; hospitals are bursting at the seams with the sick and the dead.
Sound familiar? Of course it does. But this isn't a retelling of the last few weeks' events in the United States, it is the opening of Fifty Degrees Below, the second volume in science fiction maven Kim Stanley Robinson's latest trilogy on climate change. And the drowned city isn't New Orleans: it's Washington DC. ( Read more... )
