Sixty Days and Counting
by Kim Stanley Robinson, Dominic Harman, Dominique Haas · first published 2007
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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 f
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Forty Signs of Rain, by Kim Stanley Robinson Fifty Degrees Below Sixty Days and Counting
on “Ask HN: Have you read any good “Cli-Fi” (climate fiction) books?” ↗Recommended reading: Forty Signs of Rain by Kim Stanley Robinson, plus the two other books in that trilogy: Fifty Degrees Below; Sixty Days and Counting.
on “Houston: what are the long-term consequences?” ↗…how Mars colonization and terraforming might proceed in a realistic way. He also has a trilogy on the possible/likely consequences of runaway global warming (Forty Signs of Rain, Fifty Degrees Below, Sixty Days and Counting) but RGB Mars is definitely better. Edit: "The content of Green Mars and the cover artwork for Red Mars are included on the Phoenix DVD, carried onboard Phoenix, a NASA lander that successfully touched…
on “Ask HN: What sci-fi books are you reading?” ↗