Fifty Degrees Below

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Kim Stanley Robinson. Fifty Degrees Below

Fifty Degrees Below. KIM STANLEY ROBINSON

Contents

ONE. Primate In Forest

TWO. Abrupt Climate Change

THREE. Back To Khembalung

FOUR. Is There a Technical Solution?

FIVE. Autumn In New York

SIX. Optimodal

SEVEN. The Cold Snap

EIGHT. Always Generous

NINE. Leap Before You Look

TEN. Primavera Porteño

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Other Works

Copyright

About the Publisher

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Cover

Title Page

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Having grown up in southern California, Frank could never get used to this array. These days he was fondest of the Middle Eastern and Mediterranean cuisines, and this area of Northwest was rich in both, so that he had to think about which one he wanted, and whether to eat in or do take-out. Eating alone in a restaurant he would have to have something to read. Funny how reading in a restaurant was okay, while watching a laptop or talking on a cell phone was not. Actually, judging by the number of laptops visible in the taverna at the corner of Connecticut and Brandywine, that custom had already changed. Maybe they were reading from their laptops. That might be okay. He would have to try it and see how it felt.

He decided to do take-out. It was dinner time but there was still lots of light left to the day; he could take a meal out into the park and enjoy the sunset. He walked on Connecticut until he came on a Greek restaurant that would put dolmades and calamari in paper boxes, with a dill yogurt sauce in a tiny plastic container. Too bad about the ouzo and retsina, only sold in the restaurant; he liked those tastes. He ordered an ouzo to drink while waiting for his food, downing it before the ice cubes even got a chance to turn it milky.

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