Sixty Days and Counting

Häftad, Engelska, 2007

219 kr

Beställningsvara. Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar. Fri frakt för medlemmar vid köp för minst 249 kr.

In his first sixty days, President Phil Chase intends to prove he can change the world and solve climate change. A highly topical, witty and entertaining science thriller – the follow-up to Forty Days of Rain and Fifty Degrees Below.Frank Vanderwal, in the office of Presidential science advisor, finds something reassuring about the world being so messed up. It makes his own life look like part of a trend. He's been homeless for a year, the ex-husband of the love of his life did permanent injury to his nose – probably his brain – with a punch, and the love of his life has had to go into hiding from the secret service, which has Frank under surveillance, too … but meanwhile there's the world to save. Frank's a scientist. He has to save the world so that science can proceed, obviously. This has become known as the Frank Principle.China is close to meltdown, the security agencies are in overdrive, carbon figures are close to cooking the world … and the team has sixty days to establish a new reality.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2007-10-01
Mått111 x 178 x 31 mm
Vikt266 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor512
FörlagHarperCollins Publishers
ISBN9780007148943
MiljömärkningProduced using independently certified paper to ensure responsible forestry management. (Certification is by FSC, PEFC or SFI.) Produced in the UK using 100% renewable electricity.

Tillhör följande kategorier

Moderna och samtida romaner inom Skönlitteratur

Kim Stanley Robinson was born in 1952 and, after travelling and working around the world, has nowsettled in his beloved California. He is widely regarded as the finest science fiction writer working today, noted as much for the verisimilitude of his characters as the meticulously researched hard science basis of his work. He has won just about every major sf award there is to win and is the author of the massively successful and lavishly praised Mars series.

‘One of the finest working novelists in any genre’GUARDIAN'If I had to choose one writer whose work will set the standard for science fiction in the future, it would be Kim Stanley Robinson’NEW YORK TIMESPraise for the Science in the Capital series:‘The BRAVE NEW WORLD of global warming … A narrative that is rich in closely observed characters and a wonderfully vivid sense of place … depicts a society sleep-walking towards the abyss’GUARDIAN‘A funny, convincing, intelligent book’INDEPENDENT‘Finely written and persuasively paints what may be – if climate change happens the way so many scientists fear’SFX