Description

The best-selling writer of the classic Mars trilogy and The Years of Rice and Salt returns with a riveting new trilogy of cutting-edge science, international politics, and the actual-life effects of global-warming because they are played-out within our nation’s capital—and within the everyday lives of these in the middle of the motion. Hauntingly realistic, this is a story of the long run that's inspired by scientific facts already making headlines.When the Arctic ice-pack was initially measured in the 1950s, it averaged thirty feet thick in midwinter. From the end-of the century it had been down seriously to fifteen. One August the ice broke.