- Paperback: 400 pages
- Publisher: Ace Books (25 Jun 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0441005098
- ISBN-13: 978-0441005093
- Product Dimensions: 16.8 x 10.4 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,441,346 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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In the year 2032, eighty-year-old Moira Burke watches as life on Earth becomes a series of natural disasters due to global warming--and the planet's only hope may be a bold new genetic experiment called "The Green Man".
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a wonderful book! I was so absorbed in it, I stayed up half the night reading, (the first time I have done that since becoming a parent). The premise is totally believable: the greenhouse effect is happening, and by 2032 the world is a disaster. The story takes place in Berkeley - which has not escaped the heat or other changes. Clee manages to create an 80 year old woman narrator that even very young people will identify with: she is spunky, with a dry, sarcastic sense of humor and totally down to earth. There is no dogma or preachiness or political correctness in this book, and the technological deus ex machina at the end reveals an author with a really complex and nuanced view of technology and nature. Much of the book is just about hard, day to day, real life, perhaps that is why the book is so terrifying. It's a novel of ideas that touches on everything from genetic engineering, to computers, to witchcraft. It woke me up!
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I read Overshoot after hearing about the author's first book, Branch Point. While Branch Point is very entertaining - a romp through recent history - Overshoot is a deeper, more serious, ambitious book. Take a group of people who are now in their 30s and 40s, and move them ahead in time to the year 2032, take the concerns and fears about global warming that are in the headlines now, put them together, and you have an angry, moving, wonderfully written book that showcases what social science fiction is supposed to be about. This is a future that people alive today may live to see. Yet, unlike so many "Apocalypse" books, Overshoot is not a downer. The characters suffer through some very disturbing rough times, but the ending is upbeat and hopeful, not sugar-coated or airy-fairy, and is plausible in the light of current advances in gene therapy and gene manipulation. And it isn't justone more example of an end-of-the-world novel where at the last minute the writer pulls a rabbit out of a hat and magically makes everything okay. This is a big book with big issues, not your usual escapist stuff.
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This is what awaits us if we don't change our ways, drastically, and soon. Mona paints a horrifying picture of day-to-day life in a near-future world overrun by the Greenhouse Effect and its devastating impact on all of us 30 years from now. A great cautionary tale about future environmental and social collapse in the same league as Harry Harrison's "Make Room, Make Room!" (the book Soylent Green was based on).
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Don't waste your time ...
... The only good thing I can say about it is that it does at least take global warming and enviromental disaster seriously. Read more
Published on 4 Sep 1999
Could this really happen?
"Overshoot" is a novel about global warming and other unexpected results of modern society.
What is ahead of us in the 21st Century? Read more
Published on 6 Jun 1999
Remarkable, terrifying, gripping, and thoroughly enjoyable
Well drawn characters in an extraordinary situation. Large in scope with careful attention to detail. Like her first book (Branch Point) a thoroughly enjoyable read.
Published on 28 Oct 1998
Great book.
Keep an eye out for what she writes next. The best is yet to come from this wonderful new author.
Published on 17 Oct 1998
Ecological, insightful and fun
A must read! I'm sick of people talking about El Nino when it's really global warming. I think Mona is right on. Very entertaining book.
Published on 23 July 1998
Very entertaining and thought-provoking!
I couldn't put this book down. Clee's future world is very believable. Her use of comtemporary political and social events as well as those in recent history really pull the... Read more
Published on 21 April 1998
A great new-millenia book
This is one of the best new-millenia books I've read lately. Much better than other like the Glimmering. Read more
Published on 7 April 1998
Read David Brin's "Earth" instead.
Bleh. I finished the book, but only because I wanted to find out about the Green Man. The book is pedantic and preachy. Read more
Published on 1 April 1998
On the cutting edge
The appeal of "Overshoot" is not to lovers of technology, this book not being classic genre SF. Read more
Published on 16 Mar 1998
wait for the movie...
I'm sorry, but I just can't be terribly enthusiastic about this book. It's not that I disagree with the political aim of this book--protecting the enviroment and stopping... Read more
Published on 9 Mar 1998
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