April 23, 2008
Fallen Angels
Anyone else remember the Niven/Pournelle novel form the eighties, "Fallen Angels"?
Basically, the Earth is facing an Ice Age, while environmentalists are still going on about global warming.
Turns out it might not be so fictional after all:
Sorry to ruin the fun, but an ice age cometh
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Micheal Crichton has a book STATE OF FEAR where unscruplous enviromentalist create a phonie global warming to concince the people thats its real and TOM CLANCY wrote a book RAINBOW SIX about radical enviromentalists want to come up with a virus to wipeout all human life the watch the rewilding of the earth from a special encloser
Posted by: condor at April 23, 2008 11:50 AMGreat book. The setting involving the underground sci-fi fan network strikes me as being particularly apt.
I hope I'm not mis-remembering it... it's been years since I read it.
Posted by: Russ at April 23, 2008 2:27 PMRuss, yes, that's the one.
Posted by: Ith at April 24, 2008 4:15 PM