<![CDATA[Sixty Days and Counting]]>

false <![CDATA[Sixty Days and Counting]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169580730m/41120.jpg 41120 4 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. But the president-elect remains optimistic and doesn’t intend to give up without a fight. A maverick in every sense of the word, Chase starts organizing the most ambitious plan to save the world from disaster since FDR–and assembling a team of top scientists and advisers to implement it. For Charlie Quibler, this means reentering the political fray full-time and giving up full-time care of his young son, Joe. For Frank Vanderwal, hampered by a brain injury, it means trying to protect the woman he loves from a vengeful ex and a rogue “black ops” agency not even the president can control–a task for which neither Frank’s work at the National Science Foundation nor his study of Tibetan Buddhism can prepare him. In a world where time is running out as quickly as its natural resources, where surveillance is almost total and freedom nearly nonexistent, the forecast for the Chase administration looks darker each passing day. For as the last–and most terrible–of natural disasters looms on the horizon, it will take a miracle to stop the clock . . . the kind of miracle that only dedicated men and women can bring about. 962334 27 2 2007 Sixty Days and Counting total:252|5:53|4:101|3:74|2:22|1:2| 252 937 378 48 3 1 false false Fri Aug 22 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 08 05:13:22 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 06 10:53:48 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Nov 24 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 24 00:49:12 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 24 00:57:07 -0800 2008
This is the last of a trilogy. The first was a bit lame, sort of wandering around and going nowhere. The second was much tighter. This third and final book is maybe the best of the three.

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Th...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Mar 16 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jan 21 21:42:57 -0800 2008 Sun Mar 16 15:05:53 -0700 2008 Kim Stanley Robinson is a great author. I have loved all his books, especially this trilogy. It all started with Forty Signs of Rain, I was hooked. His characters seem to come to life, and they are all very different. There is Frank (one of my favorite characters) who is an adventurer, rock-climbe...more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 03 19:05:22 -0800 2008 Thu Mar 06 08:41:11 -0800 2008
The big social question of the books was how we get people to act in the 'always generous' mode of our Prisoner's Dilemma. That is, with the world going to hell in a handbasket, how do we keep people from grabbing what they can for themselves while making things far wors...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Fri Nov 02 10:53:23 -0700 2007 Thu Mar 06 23:09:56 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false true Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 04 14:06:32 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 26 02:18:15 -0700 2007 Warning: This review contains spoilers

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Wow.

The cover tag-lines try to make it like this will serve up huge creamy nuggets of cinematic brain candy a la 'The Day After Tomorrow'... but after reading the first two in this series, I knew better.

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Not so very different from the previous two. A little more satisfying than the first one, which mostly set up the rest of the story. Not as engrossing as the second one, which had the best character development. If you read the other two, you might as well finish of...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Sep 19 18:58:53 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 19 18:58:53 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sat Nov 29 22:06:58 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 30 16:27:19 -0800 2008 1 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=41120