''Death Wave'' -- a cli-fi novel by Ben Bova

''Death Wave''

by Ben Bova,
Tor Books
416 pp.

-- ''The death wave is a metaphor for global climate change [AGW] and the need to rise above political squabbles in order to get things done, a test of humanity's vision and resolve.'' --

Ben Bova is 82 years young and "Death Wave" is his 4th novel to be published in the last couple of years. Even more remarkable, unlike the centuries-old president of the World Council in "Death Wave," Bova is doing it all without nanomachines.

                       

It is a sequel to "New Earth," and picks up with Jordan Kell coming home bearing the bad news that an intense wave of gamma radiation is heading our way, destroying all life in its path.

                       

Since the wave is still 2,000 years from Earth, the World Council responds with a lack of urgency.

 

This is Bova's real theme:

 

The death wave is a metaphor for global climate change [AGW] and the need to rise above political squabbles in order to get things done, a test of humanity's vision and resolve.

                        

                            ........How to save the world from catastrophe is a question looming over all of us.

reviewed by the Toronto Star