Sixty Days and Counting

Kim Stanley Robinson

ISBN 10: 0553585827 / ISBN 13: 9780553585827

Published by Bantam, New York, 2007

About this Item

First printing of this edition. Light cover wear, tiny creases on back. Spine is straight, not creased or curved. Pages are clean and unmarked. Bantam mass paperback, first printing Nov. 2007, ISBN: 9780553585827. 543 pages, cover art by Dominic Harman. 12mo (4.25" x 6.75") 3rd in series, preceded by Forty Signs of Rain, and Fifty Degrees Below.

Seller Inventory # 121021019780553585827vm

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sixty Days and Counting
• Publisher: Bantam, New York
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0553585827
• ISBN 13: 9780553585827
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Dominic Harman
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st printing
• Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

By the time Phil Chase is elected president, the world’s climate is far on its way to irreversible change. Food scarcity, housing shortages, diminishing medical care, and vanishing species are just some of the consequences. The erratic winter the Washington, D.C., area is experiencing is another grim reminder of a global weather pattern gone haywire: bone-chilling cold one day, balmy weather the next.

But the president-elect remains optimistic and doesn’t intend to give up without a fight. A maverick in every sense of the word, Chase starts organizing the most ambitious plan to save the world from disaster since FDR–and assembling a team of top scientists and advisers to implement it.

For Charlie Quibler, this means reentering the political fray full-time and giving up full-time care of his young son, Joe. For Frank Vanderwal, hampered by a brain injury, it means trying to protect the woman he loves from a vengeful ex and a rogue “black ops” agency not even the president can control–a task for which neither Frank’s work at the National Science Foundation nor his study of Tibetan Buddhism can prepare him.

In a world where time is running out as quickly as its natural resources, where surveillance is almost total and freedom nearly nonexistent, the forecast for the Chase administration looks darker each passing day. For as the last–and most terrible–of natural disasters looms on the horizon, it will take a miracle to stop the clock . . . the kind of miracle that only dedicated men and women can bring about.

About the Author

Kim Stanley Robinson is a winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Awards. He is the author of eleven previous books, including the bestselling Mars trilogy and the critically acclaimed Fifty Degrees Below, Forty Signs of Rain, The Years of Rice and Salt, and Antarctica–for which he was sent to the Antarctic by the U.S. National Science Foundation as part of their Antarctic Artists and Writers’ Program. He lives in Davis, California