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In Greenhouse Summer, humanity's abuse of the environment has melted the polar ice caps, expanded deserts beyond all 20th-century conceptions, and transformed Siberia into a powerful and agriculturally fertile nation--and the changes aren't over, as Monique Calhoun learns when she is sent to Paris for the United Nations' conference on global warming. The scientists present terrifying evidence that Condition Venus may already have begun. Condition Venus is a climactic change that can quickly turn the Earth as hot and deadly as Venus. The end is truly near. And transnational factions working covertly for their own agendas may only hasten the end of the world and the death of every living creature.
Norman Spinrad is, with Michael Moorcock, Harlan Ellison, and Samuel R. Delany, one of the giants of new wave science fiction. He is the author of many novels, including the notorious Bug Jack Barron, The Iron Dream, The Void Captain's Tale, and Child of Fortune, as well as several fiction and nonfiction collections. --Cynthia Ward -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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Spinrad's latest, an uneasy blend of SF, suspense thriller and political commentary, offers grim hope for our planetary ecology. In the future, the United Nations Annual Conference on Climate Stabilization meets in Paris to discuss the possibility that the world's worsening climate may degrade into a chaos of white tornadoes and desert temperatures code-named "Condition Venus." Corporations such as Breads & Circuses, p.r. spinmeisters extraordinaire, will go to any length to learn the truth, and so their operative, sexy Monique Calhoun, is instructed to book the scientists for a dinner on a river boat that's a "data sponge"Ain other words, bugged. In preparation, Calhoun meets the boat's master, ambitious Eurotrash thug Prince Eric Esterhazy. The two fall for one another; and, teaming forces, they discover a diabolical corporate plot. Spinrad remains a whiz with smart dialogue and sharp obsevation of people and place. He buries his theme of biospheric disaster underneath silly spy shenanigans, however, and ends the novel on an unsatisfying note, with the global ecological situation unresolved. (Nov.)
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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4.0 von 5 Sternen
Greenhouse Summer is HOT! HOT! HOT!,
Rezension bezieht sich auf: Greenhouse Summer (Gebundene Ausgabe)
Out of all the S.F. I have read that I found innocently standing on my local library shelf, this has got to be the most erotic novel I have ever found.Explicit language coupled with the change that time will effect on language made this book an interesting thirty hours.The only drawback for me was confusion early on. I will pick up another of Norman Spinrad's novels,this being my first.
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4.0 von 5 Sternen
Greenhouse Bummer ...,
Rezension bezieht sich auf: Greenhouse Summer (Gebundene Ausgabe)
I truly thought the world was gonna' end in this one ... Alas ...HOT DAYS: Dealing with our current situation of global warming, what I thought to have been an "End of the World" type saga, I found to be a fanciful cat and mousebrain type thriller. "Mousebrain," refers to the *polymerized* rat brains known as "meat-ware" used as processors for Spinrad's computers of the future. While not necessarily SF, Greenhouse Summer weaves a tale surrounding our future Earth so very disturbing, yet mystically enchanting the reader gets a true sense of what might yet happen on our homeworld. We get a glimpse of the "Lands of the Lost:" areas already overtaken by flood waters due to the shifting of our polar ice caps, and 21st century Paris, in the summer. In Spinrad's telling, it's always summer in Paris. The dark side is the world hangs terribly close to the brink of "Condition Venus," the point at which we can no longer reverse the global warming effects we, ourselves, have created. Spinrad's humor dampens the final blow as Earth teeters precariously close to the proverbial "end is near." The United Nations had been trying to warn the Earth for years and now it may be too late. EVEN HOTTER NIGHTS: Spinrad's comical style proves there are no real heroes in a work like this, only a form of disney--a term Spinrad uses throughout the work--meat puppet could react openly to the goings on throughout his endless descriptions of room decor, sexual liaisons and alligators in the Seine. Cardboard mockups of stereotypical displays of only the brackish type inhabit Spinrad's universe. In a world no longer "governed," Syndics seem to go on about their business with alarming effrontery, mostly, as every character in Greenhouse Summer works for one Syndic or another. So, what's the point? I thought, maybe, the world might come to an end. It may yet end due to global warming, however, I had fun getting myself right back to where I started. Greenhouse Summer was an enjoyable read. The originality of the humor kept a smile on my face throughout. Almost every overdescriptive point in the book, including a long arduous sexcapade aboard the "Queen of the River," has a punch line. I recommend this work to SF/Pulp aficionados and most anyone with a sense of humor. -ras ;) Helfen Sie anderen Kunden bei der Suche nach den hilfreichsten Rezensionen
5.0 von 5 Sternen
Spinrad at the height of his considerable powers!,
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Rezension bezieht sich auf: Greenhouse Summer (Gebundene Ausgabe)
Norman has finally returned with an utterly fantastic novel eagerly awaited by Spinrad enthusiasts worldwide! This one has everything Norman's readers have come to love,including a plot concerning the looming crisis of global warming,fully realized characters,funky technology,and lots of sex! Spinrad's singular style of rhythmic rhyming prose has never been better.His artistry with the English language, among others,continues to grow. Readers should pay close attention to the deft handling of the sensitive environmental issues that are the central focus of the plot,as well as the hopeful syndicalist system offered as a replacement for conventional outmoded capitalism. Truly,Norman Spinrad is at the height of his considerable powers! A must read for the serious lover of speculative fiction!
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