by Kim Stanley Robinson · Harpercollins Pb · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780007148882
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«Forty Signs of Rain» is the science fiction novel by Kim Stanley Robinson, published by Harpercollins Pb in paperback (368 pages, in English).
In a sweltering Washington, environmental adviser Charlie Quibler juggles caring for his son with the politics of global warming, while his wife Anna takes an interest in the embassy of Khembalung, an island nation in the Bay of Bengal. Science, big business and human greed clash in this story of survival.
The novel, first instalment of the Science in the Capital series, was nominated for the British Science Fiction Association Award for best novel in 2004.
For science fiction readers interested in climate change, science policy and techno-thrillers.
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."
