Green Earth. Kim Stanley Robinson

      GREEN EARTH

      THE SCIENCE IN THE CAPITAL TRILOGY

      FORTY SIGNS OF RAIN

      FIFTY DEGREES BELOW SIXTY DAYS AND COUNTING

      KIM STANLEY ROBINSON

       Copyright

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      First published in Great Britain by HarperVoyager 2015

      Forty Signs of Rain copyright © 2004, 2015 by Kim Stanley Robinson

      Fifty Degrees Below copyright © 2005, 2015 by Kim Stanley Robinson

      Sixty Days and Counting copyright © 2007, 2015 by Kim Stanley Robinson

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      Forty Signs of Rain, Fifty Degrees Below, and Sixty Days and Counting were originally published separately in hardcover and in different form in the UK by HarperVoyager in 2004, 2005, and 2007.

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      Source ISBN: 9780008139544

      Ebook Edition © November 2015 ISBN: 9780008139551

      Version: 2015-10-13

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

Copyright

Introduction by the Author

PART ONE: FORTY SIGNS OF RAIN

Chapter 1: The Buddha Arrives

Chapter 2: In the Hyperpower

Chapter 3: Intellectual Merit

Chapter 4: Science in the Capital

Chapter 5: Athena on the Pacific

Chapter 6: The Capital in Science

Chapter 7: Tit for Tat

Chapter 8: A Paradigm Shift

Chapter 9: Trigger Event

Chapter 10: Broader Impacts

       PART TWO: FIFTY DEGREES BELOW

       Chapter 11: Primate in Forest

       Chapter 12: Abrupt Climate Change

       Chapter 13: Back to Khembalung

       Chapter 14: Is There a Technical Solution?

       Chapter 15: Autumn in New York

       Chapter 16: Optimodal

       Chapter 17: The Cold Snap

       Chapter 18: Always Generous

       Chapter 19: Leap Before You Look

       Chapter 20: Primavera Porteño

       PART THREE: SIXTY DAYS AND COUNTING

       Chapter 21: A New Reality

       Chapter 22: Cut to the Chase

       Chapter 23: Going Feral

       Chapter 24: The Technological Sublime

       Chapter 25: Undecided

       Chapter 26: Sacred Space

       Chapter 27: Emerson for the Day