http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/sci-fi/forty-signs-of-rain/ reading material to get excited about Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:49:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/sci-fi/forty-signs-of-rain/#comment-8590 Bookgasm » Blog Archive » Sixty Days and Counting Tue, 01 May 2007 11:52:22 +0000 http://www.bookgasm.com/?p=102#comment-8590 [...] than ever, it’s a lackluster end to an otherwise strangely satisfying series. Beginning with FORTY SIGNS OF RAIN, Robinson always has made the action and the weather on equal ground with the politics, but [...] [...] than ever, it’s a lackluster end to an otherwise strangely satisfying series. Beginning with FORTY SIGNS OF RAIN, Robinson always has made the action and the weather on equal ground with the politics, but [...]

]]> http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/sci-fi/forty-signs-of-rain/#comment-6378 10 Books I Can’t Wait for in 2007 » Bookgasm Fri, 29 Dec 2006 05:11:59 +0000 http://www.bookgasm.com/?p=102#comment-6378 [...] SIXTY DAYS AND COUNTING by Kim Stanley Robinson –  The thinking man’s science-fiction thriller trilogy concludes, with Washington, D.C. presumably under some kind of heat wave, following FIFTY DEGREES BELOW’s snowstorm and FORTY SIGNS OF RAIN’s torrential floods. I never thought a mixture of extreme weather and environmental politics would make for good reading, but Lordy, does it ever. (Feb. 27) [...] [...] SIXTY DAYS AND COUNTING by Kim Stanley Robinson –  The thinking man’s science-fiction thriller trilogy concludes, with Washington, D.C. presumably under some kind of heat wave, following FIFTY DEGREES BELOW’s snowstorm and FORTY SIGNS OF RAIN’s torrential floods. I never thought a mixture of extreme weather and environmental politics would make for good reading, but Lordy, does it ever. (Feb. 27) [...]

]]> http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/sci-fi/forty-signs-of-rain/#comment-337 Bookgasm » Fifty Degrees Below Fri, 13 Jan 2006 13:41:45 +0000 http://www.bookgasm.com/?p=102#comment-337 [...] Following the rainstorm that flooded Washington, D.C. in his FORTY SIGNS OF RAIN, Kim Stanley Robinson continues his “Science in the Capital” trilogy with a most cruel winter in FIFTY DEGREES BELOW. [...] [...] Following the rainstorm that flooded Washington, D.C. in his FORTY SIGNS OF RAIN, Kim Stanley Robinson continues his “Science in the Capital” trilogy with a most cruel winter in FIFTY DEGREES BELOW. [...]

]]> http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/sci-fi/forty-signs-of-rain/#comment-272 Bookgasm » 8 Highly Anticipated Books I Couldn’t Afford to Buy in 2005, but Will Discounted in 2006 Tue, 27 Dec 2005 15:12:43 +0000 http://www.bookgasm.com/?p=102#comment-272 [...] 3. FIFTY DEGREES BELOW by Kim Stanley Robinson FORTY SIGNS OF RAIN was one of the best science fiction books I’ve read since his previous effort, THE YEARS OF RICE AND SALT. Climate change enthusiasts who got put off by Michael Crichton’s FOX News-style STATE OF FEAR should give it a try. [...] [...] 3. FIFTY DEGREES BELOW by Kim Stanley Robinson FORTY SIGNS OF RAIN was one of the best science fiction books I’ve read since his previous effort, THE YEARS OF RICE AND SALT. Climate change enthusiasts who got put off by Michael Crichton’s FOX News-style STATE OF FEAR should give it a try. [...]

]]> http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/sci-fi/forty-signs-of-rain/#comment-91 Bookgasm » BOOK WHORE >> 10.25.05 Tue, 25 Oct 2005 12:15:10 +0000 http://www.bookgasm.com/?p=102#comment-91 [...] • Finally, FIFTY DEGREES OF RAIN is the middle chapter in Kim Stanley Robinson’s “Science in the Capital” trilogy, which kicked off last year with the impressive FORTY SIGNS OF RAIN, which we reviewed here. We’d love to say this book is every bit as impressive – perhaps even more so – but our review copy has yet to arrive. (Hint hint, Bantam.) [...] [...] • Finally, FIFTY DEGREES OF RAIN is the middle chapter in Kim Stanley Robinson’s “Science in the Capital” trilogy, which kicked off last year with the impressive FORTY SIGNS OF RAIN, which we reviewed here. We’d love to say this book is every bit as impressive – perhaps even more so – but our review copy has yet to arrive. (Hint hint, Bantam.) [...]

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