Not even sure how to sum this one up... this book is sort of like a nightmare for those who think global warming is a business, and feminists (and all of their variations) are out to destroy the country. (ha)
The Green Party finally gets into power, and all science, industry, and research is, for the most part, outlawed. Science Fiction writers get sent to "Community Service," which is code speak for lobotomizing. All spending on space exploration is outlawed, and the peeps living aboard the 2 manned space stations become outlaws... so then a couple of them get shot down on an "air scooping" mission to replenish their Nitrogen supple, and hilarity ensues.
Funny side effect, in this book, of eliminating all pollution from the USA.... the soot and particulates in the air were the only thing stopping the actual next overdue ice age, and Canada is under a mile of ice that creeps southward about 10 miles a year.
Not a riveting story.... but OK. It wasn't one that kept me up late reading, but it had a lot of worst-case scenarios, like the 4 physicists that were lynched and hung from the St. Louis Arch and left there as a message about how 'science don't go 'round here, science-dog.' All the world's problems are blamed on science, and white people. No joke. "All science is just a way for destroying the ecology."
Favorite passage: "The EPA, Greenpeace, and Earth First don't actually want to get results, they want to force other to take actions they see as appropriate. Actual results would doom them."
And, "Did you ever notice that all these environmental groups were created after the worse of the ecological problems from the 60's and 70's were already fiixed, with new environmental laws already in place?"
Book - Fallen Angels - Niven, Pournelle, some other guy
Sounds like I liked it a little more than you did, but probably because there's a lot of in-jokes for science fiction convention organizers in there. Plus some of the supporting characters are based on real-life persons of note from the 70s and 80s convention scene for added amusement.
Nonetheless, when I recently read this article about a guy that wants to build unstoppable tornado-harnassing energy generators that will cool down the planet by using global warming for energy production, well I thought it was amusing and fed nicely into the plot of this book.
Nonetheless, when I recently read this article about a guy that wants to build unstoppable tornado-harnassing energy generators that will cool down the planet by using global warming for energy production, well I thought it was amusing and fed nicely into the plot of this book.
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