by Kim Stanley Robinson · Bantam Dell · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780553585803
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«Forty Signs of Rain» is the science fiction novel by Kim Stanley Robinson, published by Bantam Dell in paperback (432 pages, in English).
The novel, set in the near future during a sweltering summer in Washington D.C., follows Charlie Quibler, an environmental adviser to the Senate, and his wife Anna, a scientist at the NSF. Charlie tries to get a skeptical administration to act on global warming, while Anna examines a proposal that could resolve the crisis; the dispute over that technology leads to an unforeseen storm.
First installment of the Science in the Capital trilogy. Nominated for the BSFA Award for Best Novel.
For science fiction readers interested in climate change, science policy, and a plausible near future.
Kim Stanley Robinson is an American science fiction writer best known for his Mars trilogy of novels. Many of his novels and stories have ecological, cultural, and political themes, featuring scientists as heroes. Robinson has won numerous awards, including the Hugo Award for Best Novel, the Nebula Award for Best Novel, and the World Fantasy Award. The Atlantic magazine has called Robinson's work "the gold standard of realistic, and highly literary, science-fiction writing." According to The New Yorker magazine, Robinson is "generally acknowledged as one of the greatest living science-fiction writers."
