Mother of Storms
First edition
AuthorJohn Barnes
Cover artistBob Eggleton
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
GenreScience fiction
PublisherTor
Publication date
July 1994
Media typePrint (Hardcover)
Pages432
ISBN0-312-85560-5

Mother of Storms is a 1994 science fiction novel by American writer John Barnes. It was nominated for three major science fiction awards.[1]

Plot summary

In the early 21st century, the Earth suffers from a giant hurricane spawned by the release of clathrate compounds, as the result of a nuclear explosion. While the hurricane spawns hundreds of progeny, which, by novel's end, kill at least 1 billion people, two massively computer augmented human intelligences, both of whom witness their organic bodies die, race to corral a comet from beyond Pluto's orbit. They use the ice from the comet to reduce the Earth's surface temperatures, and quell the mother of storms.

Scientific ideas referenced

The clathrate gun hypothesis is the basis for the origin of the hurricane.

Award nominations

Translations

  • French
  • Romanian
    • Uraganele, translated by Gabriel Stoian. Editura Nemira (1999)

References

  1. "MOTHER OF STORMS by John Barnes". Kirkus Reviews. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 10 June 2018.


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