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Termination Shock transports readers to a near-future world in which the greenhouse effect has inexorably resulted in a whirling-dervish troposphere of superstorms, rising sea levels, global flooding, merciless heat waves, and virulent, deadly pandemics . . .
A sweeping technothriller offering a vision of a near-future dealing with the fallout from extreme environmental disaster, Termination Shock is both epic in scope and heartbreakingly human in its perspective as it sounds a clarion alarm, ponders potential solutions (as well as dire risks), and wraps it all together in an exhilarating, witty, mind-expanding speculative adventure.
“Stephenson is one of speculative fiction’s most meticulous architects. Termination Shock manages to pull off a rare trick, at once wildly imaginative and grounded.” -- New York Times Book Review