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false <![CDATA[Forty Signs of Rain]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255931359m/7008542.jpg 41129 11 The bestselling author of the classic Mars trilogy and The Years of Rice and Salt returns with a riveting new trilogy of cutting-edge science, international politics, and the real-life ramifications of global warming as they are played out in our nation’s capital—and in the daily lives of those at the center of the action. Hauntingly realistic, here is a novel of the near future that is inspired by scientific facts already making headlines. 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. That was last year. It’s an increasingly steamy summer in the nation’s capital as Senate environmental staffer Charlie Quibler cares for his young son and deals with the frustrating politics of global warming. Charlie must find a way to get a skeptical administration to act before it’s too late—and his progeny find themselves living in Swamp World. But the political climate poses almost as great a challenge as the environmental crisis when it comes to putting the public good ahead of private gain. While Charlie struggles to play politics, his wife, Anna, takes a more rational approach to the looming crisis in her work at the National Science Foundation. There a proposal has come in for a revolutionary process that could solve the problem of global warming—if it can be recognized in time. But when a race to control the budding technology begins, the stakes only get higher. As these everyday heroes fight to align the awesome forces of nature with the extraordinary march of modern science, they are unaware that fate is about to put an unusual twist on their work—one that will place them at the heart of an unavoidable storm. With style, wit, and rare insight into our past, present, and possible future, this captivating novel propels us into a world on the verge of unprecedented change—in a time quite like our own. Here is Kim Stanley Robinson at his visionary best, offering a gripping cautionary tale of progress—and its price—as only he can tell it. From the Hardcover edition. 962345 book 2004 Forty Signs of Rain total:465|5:77|4:161|3:174|2:43|1:10| 465 1647 658 88 41129 0553585800 9780553585803 444 83 Forty Signs of Rain 3.54 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169580736m/41129.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41129.Forty_Signs_of_Rain 3 2 false Fri May 30 22:41:34 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 02 15:37:59 -0700 2008 entirely setup. Seriously, almost...more...]]> 41129 0553585800 9780553585803 444 83 Forty Signs of Rain 3.54 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169580736m/41129.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41129.Forty_Signs_of_Rain 2 1 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 07 11:14:21 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 07 11:22:01 -0800 2009 ...more...]]> 41129 0553585800 9780553585803 444 83 Forty Signs of Rain 3.54 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169580736m/41129.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41129.Forty_Signs_of_Rain 2 0 false Wed May 09 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Dec 21 20:12:36 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 21 20:13:50 -0800 2008 Forty Signs of Rain. This is another of my "picked up on a whim" books, in this case because I was in the mood to read a vaguely-SFish novel about what happens when global warming wreaks hardcore havoc on the planet. Sort o...more...]]> 41129 0553585800 9780553585803 444 83 Forty Signs of Rain 3.54 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169580736m/41129.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41129.Forty_Signs_of_Rain 3 0 false Wed Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Mon Oct 19 08:59:17 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 19 09:02:55 -0700 2009
Now, he’s back with a new trilogy. And while it would be easy to classify it as science-fiction, that might be selling the...more...]]> 41129 0553585800 9780553585803 444 83 Forty Signs of Rain 3.54 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169580736m/41129.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41129.Forty_Signs_of_Rain 4 0 false Wed Aug 26 11:20:37 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 26 11:33:29 -0700 2009 The story revolves around a group of people involved in the problem solving efforts to respond to the very ...more...]]> 41129 0553585800 9780553585803 444 83 Forty Signs of Rain 3.54 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169580736m/41129.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41129.Forty_Signs_of_Rain 2 0 false Tue Jul 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 28 21:45:17 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 28 21:45:17 -0700 2009
I read this book out of order with the second. I was hoping that this book would be better than the next, that the middle book served as a connector between the ends -- instead, I enjoyed this book less.

The writin...more...]]> 41129 0553585800 9780553585803 444 83 Forty Signs of Rain 3.54 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169580736m/41129.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41129.Forty_Signs_of_Rain 3 1 false Wed May 20 17:03:45 -0700 2009 Tue May 12 14:05:25 -0700 2009 Wed May 20 17:03:45 -0700 2009 41129 0553585800 9780553585803 444 83 Forty Signs of Rain 3.54 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169580736m/41129.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41129.Forty_Signs_of_Rain 5 0 false Fri Mar 20 12:50:56 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 27 13:13:42 -0700 2009 more...]]> 41129 0553585800 9780553585803 444 83 Forty Signs of Rain 3.54 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169580736m/41129.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41129.Forty_Signs_of_Rain 3 0 false Mon Jan 19 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 12 15:06:45 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 20 15:43:10 -0800 2009 State of Fear ( http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/429... ) were well-informed and written about ten times better, it might be something like this book.

While not nearly as good as the Mars trilogy or Antarctica, this is a solid novel about the politics of climate change and the huma...more...]]> 977449 0007148860 9780007148868 1 1 Forty Signs of Rain 3.54 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179953409m/977449.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/977449.Forty_Signs_of_Rain 4 0 false Sat Nov 15 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 30 11:12:36 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 30 21:01:01 -0800 2008 more...]]> 406841 0553803115 9780553803112 10 2 Forty Signs of Rain 3.54 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174492220m/406841.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/406841.Forty_Signs_of_Rain 5 0 false Sun Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004 Fri Aug 22 18:28:40 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 22 18:28:40 -0700 2008 more...]]> 41129 0553585800 9780553585803 444 83 Forty Signs of Rain 3.54 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169580736m/41129.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41129.Forty_Signs_of_Rain 3 0 false Mon Mar 03 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Mar 06 13:28:58 -0800 2008 Thu Mar 06 13:36:49 -0800 2008 Ilium as "literary science fiction" but Kim Stanley Robinson is the real deal. His epic speculative fiction is dense, character-driven writing on remarkable topics. (This is not to disparage Ilium, which is a feat of imagination and plotting -- but
literary it ain...more...]]> 41129 0553585800 9780553585803 444 83 Forty Signs of Rain 3.54 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169580736m/41129.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41129.Forty_Signs_of_Rain 3 0 false Wed Apr 02 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Feb 23 08:58:42 -0800 2008 Thu Apr 03 07:13:33 -0700 2008
The other problem I has with it was a typical hard S...more...]]> 41129 0553585800 9780553585803 444 83 Forty Signs of Rain 3.54 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169580736m/41129.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41129.Forty_Signs_of_Rain 5 0 false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Fri Dec 21 19:46:48 -0800 2007 Sun Dec 30 21:29:58 -0800 2007
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C'mon folks. This is not the science fiction book of the year. I don't particularly mind when authors (especially when, like Robinson, they are authors with whom I basically agree) try to integrate their personal political messages into sf books as l...more...]]> 41129 0553585800 9780553585803 444 83 Forty Signs of Rain 3.54 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169580736m/41129.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41129.Forty_Signs_of_Rain 3 0 false Sun Oct 28 16:38:00 -0700 2007 Wed Oct 17 20:26:37 -0700 2007 Sat Oct 27 16:34:19 -0700 2007
Forty Signs of Rain is set just slightly in the future--maybe 2 or 3 years. It's classified as sci fi, though it's more of a character study than anything else...more...]]> 41129 0553585800 9780553585803 444 83 Forty Signs of Rain 3.54 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169580736m/41129.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41129.Forty_Signs_of_Rain 2 0 false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Mon Sep 17 18:52:42 -0700 2007 Mon Sep 17 19:04:01 -0700 2007
by coincidence, i read this book together with crichton's state of fear, and the way the two books played off one another was the only really interesting part about ...more...]]> 41129 0553585800 9780553585803 444 83 Forty Signs of Rain 3.54 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169580736m/41129.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41129.Forty_Signs_of_Rain 3 0 false Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 04 12:46:46 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 26 00:54:48 -0700 2007 The Years of Rice and Salt. I won't revisit the horror except to say it was very bad. I tell you this because it was by the same author as this book. But this one sounded interesting so I gave it a shot.
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