Greenhouse Summer - Softcover

"Spinrad is back, in his own rare form, as stimulating as ever!"--Gregory Benford "Here's a fast, fun, fearsome future, seen from the upper rungs of the economic ladder."--"San Diego Union-Tribune" "Spinrad is famous for writing realistic and scary science fiction with outstanding characters. This is his most frightening work. Its apocalyptic scenarios and powerful editing seem inevitable in the real world. Though Spinrad is a unique writer, this book also reminds me of certain aspects of the works of Kobo Abe, Haruki Murakami, and Ferdinand Celine. Highly recommended."--Philip Jose Farmer

About a hundred years from now, pollution, overpopulation, and ecological disasters have left the rich nations still rich, and the poor nations--the Lands of the Lost--slowly strangling in drought and pollution. New York City is below sea level, surrounded by a seawall. The climate in Paris is much like the twentieth-century climate of long-drowned New Orleans. And Siberia, Golden Siberia, is the crop-land of the world. Still, for the international corporations and businesses who make a profit on technofixing the environment--the Big Blue Machine--it is business as usual: sell what you can where you can whenever you can. It is better to be rich. But it all may be coming to a terrible end: a scientist has predicted Condition Venus, the sudden greenhouse downfall of the entire planet--but she can't say when. So now the attention of the world is focused for a week on a UN conference on the Environment in Paris, where all hell is about to break loose.