The Guardian interviews writer Kim Stanley Robinson. His current books are about a near future America still refusing to deal with climate change. In the climax of Forty Signs of Rain, the tidal surge from a hurricane floods the Nation’s Capital.
It may get a little dire before we pull together, but I think when the prosperous nations, and in particular the US, realise they’re wrecking their own kids’ lives, there will be a mass change in value. It will be a difficult century, and ugly, but I don’t think that in the end people are so stupid as to kill themselves off.
The second book in the series, Fifty Degrees Below, arrives in October, 2005.
See Also
- Zone SF interview on The Years of Rice and Salt
- Tim O’Reilly’s appreciation of Kim Stanley Robinson
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