Forty Signs of Rain

[phantom power]

Wandering thru the bookstore the other day, I ran across some new stuff by Kim Stanley Robinson: Forty Signs of Rain. I'm about 75 pages into it, and it's shaping up to be a sort of thinking man's version of "Day After Tomorrow." Or, maybe Coming Global Superstorm but without Whitley "I-was-abducted-by-aliens" Strieber.

If, like me, you're into climate disaster porn combined with KSR-style bureaucratic intrigue, here it is:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0553585800/sr=8-1/qid=1141769096/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-6579800-4048806?%5Fencoding=UTF8

[villager]

1. read it, liked it...

isn't the second part of his climate "trilogy" out now, too?

[phantom power]

2. Yes, but only hardcover: "Fifty Degrees Below"

Cover features the U.S. capital building buried under snow.

[Rick Myers]

3. KSR knows the weather material well

from the Mars trilogy and terraforming. I think the second book is called 'Fifty Degrees Below.'

[NMDemDist2]

4. ROFL "climate disaster porn"

:rofl:

I'm stealing it......

[phantom power]

5. I once read Margaret Atwood's "Rape Fantasies" in literature class...

There was much discussion of "rape fantasies" as a coping mechanism; a way of defusing the fear of an actual rape by imagining rape scenarios with benign outcomes.

I think maybe my fascination with climate disaster porn is my own version of rape fantasies. A way to defuse my fear of the real thing, by playing out scenarios where at least some civilization survives. Then I can imagine myself as one of the survivors. Climate rape fantasies.

[villager]

6. well put

n/t

[eppur_se_muova]

7. His description of the pResident (obviously **) is spot on.

I posted a full quote to another thread, but can't find it now....