Winner Hugo Award (1962) (NOTE: it was actually the five short stories that make up this novel that were awarded the Hugo Award for best short fiction). Further, Harlan Ellison - whose short story collection, Deathbird Stories, I like a lot - just LOVED IT!

Hothouse Earth by Bill McGuire | Waterstones

As a result, the authors claim, we have failed to act responsibly, and have underestimated the extreme risks of that failure.Progressive climate breakdown will affect everyone and insinuate itself into every aspect of our lives.

HOTHOUSE EARTH | Kirkus Reviews HOTHOUSE EARTH | Kirkus Reviews

Please note that this is not “hard SF” and the explanations for how the world developed into the Garden of Hell are not plausible but that is not the point. The creators also highlight the dangerous parallels between the hate speech, stereotyping, and legislation used against Japanese Americans and the trajectory of current events. It turns out the climate is changing for the worse far quicker than predicted by early climate models. But I am just stating my enjoyment on the characters, which was rather low, than criticizing the way they are developed. And because of that, and for the themes it explores, I recommend it to those that are looking for something a bit different.Along the journey, Gren and his group (and the reader) are shown a whole host of very interesting creatures and plants and that is really where this book hits it out of the park.

Hothouse Earth: The Climate Crisis and the Importance of Hothouse Earth: The Climate Crisis and the Importance of

By drawing the portrait of a Dying Earth (intentional reference here to Jack Vance) , Aldiss not only announces his major focus on complex planetary ecosystems that will become his masterful Helliconia trilogy.In 1979, the World Meteorological Organization, with full knowledge of the carbon dioxide risk, convened the first international climate conference in Geneva.

Hothouse (novel) - Wikipedia Hothouse (novel) - Wikipedia

It's a plant world for sure, an atmosphere thick by heat as much as the vines that flow down to the hidden ground if there is one. although to achieve such a goal, it was calculated that global carbon emissions will have to be reduced by 45% by 2030. The prose was more than strong enough to prevent such a monstrosity of a novel from collapsing, filled with tantalizing images of truly odd creatures and situations I can barely guess at. Garrett and others point out that windmills and solar panels also require fossil fuels to build, that more energy stimulates the economy to grow, and that this growth is fed by even more fossil energy.Brian Aldiss died on August 19, 2017, just after celebrating his 92nd birthday with his family and closest friends. He seems doomed to die quick because of his tendency to try new ways of solving problems of survival, but such new strategies were for him the only to keep ahead of the game. Aldiss wrote this as five separate novelettes so there are five fairly separate adventures that don't really flow into each other but who needs flow, the narrative stops and starts and does what it wants to do, just like the author.