Hot Sky at Midnight

Silverberg, Robert

ISBN 10: 0553092480 / ISBN 13: 9780553092486

Published by Spectra, 1994

Item in very good condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc. Seller Inventory # 00083202790

Synopsis:

Humankind's soul is at stake in a futuristic tale of an earth bordering on ecological collapse, from which the only escapes are genetic adaptation or emigration to satellite cities in the sky. By the author of Kingdoms of the Wall.

From the Back Cover:

There's no mistaking the terminal phase of irreversible catastrophe. The climate has gone beserk. 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. There 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 planet's last gasp.

"Exquisitely crafted ... It is all superb"
INTERZONE

"A master of his craft and imagination"
LOS ANGELES TIMES

Bibliographic Details

Title: Hot Sky at Midnight
Publisher: Spectra
Publication Date: 1994
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good