Kim Stanley Robinson

Twenty-five years after China established the first colony on the moon--an American who witnesses a murder, a celebrity travel reporter, and the daughter of China's Minister of Finance--all find that it is a very deadly place.

Winner of the Nebula Award for Best Novel • Discover the novel that launched one of science fiction’s most beloved, acclaimed, and awarded trilogies: Kim Stanley Robinson’s masterly near-future chronicle of interplanetary colonization.
 
“A staggering book . . . the best novel on the colonization of Mars that has ever been written.”—Arthur C. Clarke
For centuries, the barren, desolate...

The bestselling author of the classic Mars trilogy and The Years of Rice and Salt presents a riveting new trilogy of cutting-edge science, international politics, and the real-life ramifications of global warming as they are played out in our nation’s capital—and in the daily lives of those at the center of the action. Hauntingly yet humorously realistic, here is a novel of the near future that is inspired by scientific facts...

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...

Eccentric geologist Professor Hardwigg is intrigued by the encrypted message he finds between the leaves of an ancient manuscript. His nephew Harry helps him crack the code, revealing a message from a medieval alchemist claiming to have found a route to the very bowels of the Earth. The professor becomes obsessed with the quest, waving aside the siren warnings of his fearful nephew. Their subterranean adventure begins at an Icelandic volcano, where...