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Spruill, Steven G. , Greenhouse Summer
New York, NY, U.S.A. Tom Doherty Associates, LLC 1999 0-312-86799-9 / 9780312867997 1st Edition. 1st Impression. Hard Cover As New As New
In order to get a book (THIS BOOK) from my PENNY BOOKS catalog, you need to purchase at least 1 SIGNED book. Thanks. From The Critics Library Journal In the not-so-distant future, the world teeters on the brink of environmental disaster caused by global warming. Hired as a spin doctor for a UN conference on the cooling of the world's climate, Monique Calhoun discovers a conspiracy revolving around a scientist's warning that the end of the world is near owing to an exponential increase of the greenhouse effect. The author of The Void Captain's Tale presents a rich and often disturbing exploration of human ethics while at the same time telling a seriocomic tale of environmental mayhem. Highly recommended for most sf collections. Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information. Russell Letson - Locus For all the comic-inferno exaggeration and comic material (notably a couple of outrageous interrogation-by-sex scenes), Greenhouse Summer has some serious things to say about means and ends, about taking responsibility and doing the necessary. It's a book that wants to rub our noses in some unpleasant facts, but it also wants us to laugh at our foolishness. Funny, sexy, hardboiled, soft-hearted. Grandpa should be proud of this kid. San Diego Union Tribune Here's a fast, fun, fearsome future, seen from the upper rungs of the economic ladder. Kirkus Reviews Global-meltdown yarn, part satire, part political comedy, part sober admonition, from the Paris-resident author of Russian Spring (1991), etc. Thanks to global warming, deserts are spreading, coasts are flooded, and icecaps are melting but Siberia has blossomed into the most prosperous region on the planet. Scientists predict the onset of a runaway-greenhouse Condition Venus that will render Earth uninhabitable. The ineffectual annual UN climate conference moves to tropical Paris. But this year, the sponsors (the Big Blue Machine, the unreconstructed capitalists who run the planet) have hired Bread & Circuses to handle spin and gloss, and are providing lavish funding. Monique Calhoun of Bread & Circuses is told by Big Blue bosses to hire a party riverboat owned by the Bad Boys, a benevolent outgrowth of mafias, triads, and drug barons, fronted by Eric Esterhazy. The boat's crawling with surveillance devices. The Bad Boys agree to a joint party with Bread & Circuses, each hoping to spy on the other's clients, while Monique and Eric attempt to seduce one another in a complicated game of bluff and counterbluff. Clearly, the Big Blue Machine is desperate to grab Siberian money for their climate control schemes but to save their own financial hides, or to save the planet? For all his eccentricities, this time he's too obviously infatuated with Paris, Spinrad has a social conscience and isn't afraid to exercise it in public. The upshot's often shapeless, but funny, caustic, and dead on target.
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