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Block the sun, save the earth?
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The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
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Kim Stanley Robinson's latest book, The Ministry for the Future, is a big head. It begins with India suffering a terrible heatwave and single-handedly launching a geoengineering effort. So it sort of has a good outcome in that book. But that's one example of a sci-fi work that takes on geoengineering. Isn't this how Snowpiercer starts? The men of science tried to cool the earth to reverse the damage they had sown. Instead, they froze her to the core.
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