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Fifty degrees below / Kim Stanley Robinson.

by Robinson, Kim Stanley.

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Bantam Books, c2005.

Climate and civilization -- Fiction.

Climatic extremes -- Fiction.

Glacial epoch -- Fiction.

Washington (D.C.) -- Fiction.

9780553585810 (2007 Bantam mass market ed.)

9780553803129 (hardcover)

0553803123 (hardcover)

Alternate title:

50 degrees below

405 p. ; 25 cm.

"When the storm got bad, scientist Frank Vanderwal was at work, formalizing his return to the National Science Foundation for another year. He’d left the building just in time to help sandbag at Arlington Cemetery. Now that the torrent was over, large chunks of San Diego had eroded into the sea, and D.C. was underwater. Shallow lakes occupied the most famous parts of the city. Reagan Airport was awash and the Potomac had spilled beyond its banks. Rescue boats dotted the saturated cityscape. Everything Frank and his colleagues in the halls of science and politics feared had culminated in this massive disaster. And now the world looked to them to fix it. Whatever Frank can do, now that he is homeless, he’ll have to do from his car. He’s not averse to sleeping outdoors. Years of research have made him hyperaware of his status as just another primate. That plus his encounter with a Tibetan Buddhist has left him resolved to live a more authentic life. Hopefully, this will prepare him for whatever is to come.... For even as D.C. bails out from the flood, a more extreme climate change looms. With the melting of the polar ice caps shutting down the warm waters of the Gulf Stream, another Ice Age could be imminent. The last time it happened, eleven thousand years ago, it took just three years to start."--Inside jacket.

Political fiction.

Science fiction.

Dystopian fiction.

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