February Books 11) Forty Signs of Rain

11) Forty Signs of Rain, by Kim Stanley Robinson

C’mon folks. This is not the science fiction book of the year. I don’t particularly mind when authors (especially when, like Robinson, they are authors with whom I basically agree) try to integrate their personal political messages into sf books as long as they also remember to include the sensawunda – so I was able to take the three long long Mars books, and the much more entertaining Years of Rice and Salt. But here, the front cover proclaims “CATASTROPHE BECKONS