Book description
There's no mistaking the terminal phase of irreversible catastrophe.
The climate has gone berserk. Rising oceans inundate swamps and deserts.
Genetic engineers have yet to redesign the human body to cope with the
crud in the air, the water, the food, the soil. Now time has run out.
With Earth a lost cause, the satellite worlds twinkling in orbit are
prime territory for takeover by the powerful and rich. They are a single
battleground on which the richest and most powerful megacorps,
Kyocera-Merck and Samurai Industries, fight, no holds barred. In the
artificial purity of satellite air or beneath the bilious skies of
Earth, despite newly evolved bacterial plagues and bribe-taking
androids, Robert Silverberg's characters pursue destinies both
outrageously self interested and heartwrenchingly familiar in a savagely
funny story of our planets last gasp. Robert Silverberg (1935 - )
Robert Silverberg was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1935, and is one of
the most prolific authors of all time, writing not just SF &
Fantasy, but extensive non-fiction and a large number of pseudonymously
published erotica novels. In his first years as a professional writer,
his output regularly exceeded a million words per year. He has won and
been nominated for the Hugo and Nebula awards dozens of times as both
writer and editor, and in 2004 received the SFWA Grand Master Award.
Among his many acclaimed and bestselling novels are A Time of Changes,
The Book of Skulls, Dying Inside and Lord Valentine's Castle. Robert
Silverberg lives on the West Coast of the United States with his wife,
author, editor and art critic, Karen Haber.
