Name: Forty Signs of Rain
ISBN: 9780553585803

Kim Stanley Robinson

In the first installment of a trilogy of eco-thrillers set in Washington, D.C., environmental aide Charlie Quibler is frustrated in his attempts to prove to a distracted government that global warming has reached cataclysmic levels, a situation that is complicated when a promising technology is exploited for private interests. Reprint.

Forty Signs of Rain

Magnus Dahl

Dave Lehman

The world's climates are changing: catastrophe beckons. The staff at a new embassy for the tiny island state of Khembalung have just arrived in Washington to lobby Senate for help with their rising sea-level. Environmental aide Charlie Quibler is frustrated in his attempts to prove to the government that global warming has reached cataclysmic levels. Charlie's wife Anna, director of bioinformatics at the National Science Foundation and well known for her hyperrational intensity, is entranced by the Khembalis. By contrast, her colleague, Frank Vanderwal, is equally cynical about the Buddhists and the NSF.