{"id":164,"date":"2006-03-05T04:16:57","date_gmt":"2006-03-05T09:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/s265039441.onlinehome.us\/philpaine\/?p=164"},"modified":"2018-08-23T15:10:11","modified_gmt":"2018-08-23T19:10:11","slug":"14614-%c2%a0%c2%a0-kim-stanley-robinson-fifty-degrees-below","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=164","title":{"rendered":"14614.&nbsp;(Kim Stanley Robinson) Fifty Degrees Below"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?attachment_id=9695\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9695\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9695 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/14614.-Kim-Stanley-Robinson-Fifty-Degrees-Below-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"14614. (Kim Stanley Robinson) Fifty Degrees Below\" width=\"240\" height=\"161\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/14614.-Kim-Stanley-Robinson-Fifty-Degrees-Below-1024x682.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/14614.-Kim-Stanley-Robinson-Fifty-Degrees-Below-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/14614.-Kim-Stanley-Robinson-Fifty-Degrees-Below-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/14614.-Kim-Stanley-Robinson-Fifty-Degrees-Below.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\"><\/a>Kim Stan\u00adley Robin\u00adson is always read\u00adable, though the nar\u00adra\u00adtive often stops dead so that the read\u00ader can be sup\u00adplied with large quan\u00adti\u00adties of sci\u00aden\u00adtific, his\u00adtor\u00adi\u00adcal, or polit\u00adi\u00adcal infor\u00adma\u00adtion. It\u2019s to Robinson\u2019s cred\u00adit that he can pull off these dis\u00adqui\u00adsi\u00adtions with\u00adout los\u00ading the read\u00ader. But it makes his nov\u00adels a bit emo\u00adtion\u00adally cool. <span id=\"more-164\"><\/span>This is Robinson\u2019s Glob\u00adal Warm\u00ading nov\u00adel. It begins, inter\u00adest\u00adingly, with the city of Wash\u00ading\u00adton rav\u00adaged by a dev\u00adas\u00adtat\u00ading flood. The descrip\u00adtion of the clum\u00adsy and inad\u00ade\u00adquate response is won\u00adder\u00adfully pre\u00adscient \u2014 the book was released only months before the New Orleans flood, and must have been writ\u00adten in 2004. The book didn\u2019t strike ter\u00adror into my heart, as was intend\u00aded, since the sci\u00adence fic\u00adtional premise is that the Unit\u00aded States is sud\u00addenly forced to have Canada\u2019s cli\u00admate. I\u2019ve been out\u00addoors in fifty-below zero weath\u00ader numer\u00adous times, and, while a brac\u00ading expe\u00adri\u00adence, the phrase \u201cfifty below\u201d doesn\u2019t have quite the same scare val\u00adue for me that it does for a Californian.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kim Stan\u00adley Robin\u00adson is always read\u00adable, though the nar\u00adra\u00adtive often stops dead so that the read\u00ader can be sup\u00adplied with large quan\u00adti\u00adties of sci\u00aden\u00adtific, his\u00adtor\u00adi\u00adcal, or polit\u00adi\u00adcal infor\u00adma\u00adtion. It\u2019s to Robinson\u2019s cred\u00adit that he can pull off these dis\u00adqui\u00adsi\u00adtions without&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=164\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[946,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-b-reading","category-bu-reading-2006"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9696,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions\/9696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}