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Earth Winter

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2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

This book deserved a five!!! I have never read the first book but I feel I didn't need too. After finishing the book, I do see that this can become a Hollywood made movie. I'm not sure what Robert Morgan background is but there are some great military, political, scientific thoeries and senerios, in my opinion, are phenomenially well executed. After reading the 2nd chapter I was hooked. It showcased a dramatic scene about what a father would have to do in order for his family to survive. That scene was very intense. Later in the book, events that lead to a face-off between a female mayor and and angry mob had me on the edge of my seat. So much in this book keep my interest afloat, there were no boring elements at all!! This book from begining to end was excellent reading. In the future, I will definitely read more books by this author.

It was mostly an enjoyable read. The "science" in the fiction was fairly well thought out (except for one really big problem at the end), but I thought the love scenes were more suitable for a soap opera than a science fiction novel, and dumb at times. Other than that, it was OK, BUT:

Near the end, the author casually throws out the fact that cold fusion had been available for some time. WHAT????? The whole story is based on the premise that its too cold in the northern hemisphere, there is not enough heat, enough food, enough liquid water, etc. etc., but if cold fusion is available, none of these would not be such a big problem!!! Cold fusion would be the most revolutionary thing since the steam engine, perhaps even more revolutionary! How did the author mess that up??

I know this can be seen as a small thing, but this little fact turned the entire story very sour for me, and this is why I am giving it a 2. If not, I would give it a 3 or 4.

Earth's northern hemisphere lies beneath a vast cloud of volcanic ash, and the nations of the southern hemisphere find themselves supplying food to those northern countries that used to be the world's breadbaskets. It's not just the terrible cold; it's the lack of sunlight during the north's shortened summers that makes normal crop production impossible. With emigrants from poorer countries such as China flooding into the United States anyway, the U.S. president turns to geothermal energy entrepreneur Ben Meade for help. Ben teams up with his fiancee, British plant genetics expert Marjorie Glynn, to do what they've already done in Britain: build vast biospheres, enclosed environments where crops can be grown and humans can live protected from the increasingly brutal world outside. With Argentina's ruling junta repeatedly raising prices for its food exports, getting the biospheres operational is a race against time. That race takes on new urgency when an accident sets back the development of the first Biosphere America, a severely overworked Marjorie Glynn suffers a near breakdown, and Argentina buys itself a nuclear submarine. Can Ben Meade's latest inspiration - a scheme to raise temperatures throughout the northern hemisphere to near normal levels - succeed despite Argentina's determination to thwart him and protect its burgeoning profits? And if Ben fails, what will happen to the U.S. and its desperate people?

I had no trouble following this book's story despite not having read the book before it, Empire of Ice. I found the love scenes between Ben and Marjorie rather silly at times, and the "first woman president of the United States" seemed like a much bigger deal than it (well, she!) should have been; but that may be because this tale was published in the middle 1990s, and set in a 2000 that was still the future. As an adventure story it reads well enough, and the passages about the Jerome family stranded and starving to death in their snowbound Wyoming ranch house are wrenching. The book could have used more such passages.

Ok ok.. I know what you're thinking.. cheesy disaster book, science fiction, why is he crying? I thought at the center of all this disaster stuff there was a fantastic love lost story between the two people that were torn between responsibility and love. This is one of those books that just didn't have a chance, which is sad, because I really enjoyed myself while reading this

This time Moran focuses on the states. There is some pretty unbelievable science in this book, such as their plan to divert the Gulf Stream (though i don't know, maybe it could be done)We have a different enemy in this edition, mainly Argentina and the S. Hemisphere countries, who have risen in power since the crippling of agriculture in the northern hemisphere. good book.

Barely two stars. I've never seen anyone rip off their own book so badly. I'm a sucker for disaster books, so I was willing to look past the bad Hollywood action film formula that formed the foundation for the previous book. Earth Winter, however, followed the formula of the previous book so closely that I could not even begin to forgive. The cycles of the character's relationships, military-political intrigues, and science heroics were all exactly the same as the previous book. My impression is that he rewrote the previous book paragraph by paragraph in an attempt to retain the same feeling as the previous book.

I like the first book in the series : Empire of ice. It set up the story nicely even if there are not a lot of characters. There is the hansome, rugged multi-millionaire who dress up casual and has a simple lifestyle. Where are those guys in real life? I guess they are so rare so they deserve to save the world :)

Anyway, I read every disaster book I can get my hands on. This book wasn't the best but was able to get me interested enough to finish it. If you read the first one and like it, you will not be disapointed with this one because it is a perfect continuity. The enemy has changed but it always a question of power and money.Is it ever about anything else.

I would have like to have more written about how the people were living the situation in the north. If you want that, read The sixth winter.