Where’s the science in science fiction? Where indeed, asks SF writer Kim Stanley Robinson, one of the few who work hard to make their stories scientifically sound. All the more scary, then, that the fictional floods that turn Washington DC into Venice in Forty Signs of Rain, the first volume of his near-future eco-saga, have morphed into real-world Gulf Coast floods and hurricanes. And as Liz Else hears, there’s worse to come in the second volume, “Fifty Degrees Below”.
Your latest scenario is awful: before it recovers from the floods caused by climate change, Washington is gripped by a polar…
