Description
In Washington, D.C., the National Science Foundation is where ideas become funding, and funding becomes the future. When Anna Quibler, a bioinformatics scientist, encounters a newly arrived Buddhist delegation establishing an embassy beside NSF headquarters, her personal curiosity collides with the political and ethical machinery of scientific decision-making. As committees weigh research proposals under strict rules of neutrality, Anna and her colleagues—along with Frank and Charlie—navigate competing interests, institutional pressures, and the human stakes behind “objective” peer review. Blending near-future realism with Kim Stanley Robinson’s signature attention to systems, this novel explores how science, power, and morality intertwine, and what it means to pursue truth in a world shaped by money, diplomacy, and climate-driven displacement.
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paperback
HarperCollins Publishers
Published Jan 1, 2005
370 pages
ISBN: 9780007148882
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Details
First Published
2003
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Forty Signs of Rain by Kim Stanley Robinson.