 | Heavy Weather by Bruce Sterling
Buy used from: £0.01 "Twister" set in a climate changed futuristic southern USA. Style is cyberpunk naturalism; themes are survivalism, hacking, population issues (the human plague).
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 | Alien Earth by Megan Lindholm
Buy used from: £4.93 Refugees of a wrecked Earth return on a living space ship on a mission that fails it's intended purpose but ends up exploring the nature of life. Outstanding storytelling. Philosophical and exciting.
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 | Forty Signs of Rain by Kim Stanley Robinson
Buy new: £5.47 / Used from: £0.01 A realistic "The Day After Tomorrow" by the no 1 "near future fiction" writer. Get educated on current climatology and many other science topics yet intimate with the characters.
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 | Fifty Degrees Below by Kim Stanley Robinson
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.92 The sequel to Forty Signs.. explores the life in Washington (not New Orleans) recovering from a flood. Scientists dealing with survival as a human in theory and daily life.
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 | Darwinia by Robert Charles Wilson
Buy used from: £2.30 R C Wilson takes it a step further and involves Gaia herself in the action; in this case by her scratching an itch (wiping out 1st WW Europe!). Weird story but very good idea.
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 | Bios by Robert Charles Wilson
Buy used from: £2.35 A planet aparently without intelligent life scheming to get rid of it's human colonizers. Absolutely amazing concept - cooperate evolution in action - but somewhat indifferent characters.
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