Forty Signs of Rain by Kim Stanley Robinson, HarperCollins, £17.99, ISBN 0007148860 Reviewed by Maggie McDonald
NO ONE in power will take the dangers of climate change seriously, says this prophet of doom, until they are at the door. In Forty Signs of Rain, Kim Stanley Robinson is freed by his medium – fiction – to deliver that message with passion and restraint. His heroine is the centre of another power nexus: funding science research, while his hero lobbies for the environment. A great book, it has a killer last line, delivered as water laps Capitol Hill while zoo animals…
