Cool Earth
About this book
2080. The countdown to the end of the world has begun.On an early June afternoon high up on the forested Sierra slopes of Mount Whitney, three scientists try to get to higher ground to avoid the ever bigger super-tsunamis wracking the coasts. On their perilous trek they encounter gene-enhanced teen gangs and a variety of wilderness challenges.There they also face the final fruits of their own misguided efforts to cool the earth—the world-wide geoengineering “cool earth” project that attempted to gently move the earth-moon system a little farther out from the sun.Bart Kosko’s Cool Earth is a hard-edged science-fiction thriller about the catastrophic unintended consequences of a geoengineering attempt to fix global warming.Praise for Cool Earth:'This fast and furious novel is hard near-future fiction, hard to put down' - Gregory Benford, author of Timescape, Nebula and Robert A. Heinlein Award winnerPraise for Bart Kosko:'Kosko is the quintessential scientific cyber-punk—a street-smart prophet of the information age' - Los Angeles Times Magazine'Bart Kosko is a wonderful futurist with a polymathic combination of talents' - Professor Marvin Minsky, M. I. T.'A wunderkind among the scientific elite of artificial intelligence' - The Jerusalem Report'Polymath' - WiredBest-selling author Dr. Bart Kosko is a professor of electrical engineering and law at the University of Southern California and one of the acclaimed founders of the machine-learning fields of fuzzy logic and neural networks. He holds degrees in law, philosophy, economics, mathematics, and engineering. He is an award-winning composer and a licensed attorney. He has a unique and truly interdisciplinary background that informs his prose—prose that ranges from popular fiction and op-ed essays to trade nonfiction and textbooks to journal articles in mathematical physics and nanotechnology.