- 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: 2,198,031 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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5.0 out of 5 stars
A wonderful book: believable, terrifying, great characters.,
By A Customer
This review is from: Overshoot (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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5.0 out of 5 stars
Social Science Fiction at Its Best,
By A Customer
This review is from: Overshoot (Paperback)
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.
5.0 out of 5 stars
A terrifying wake-up call about the near future,
By A Customer
This review is from: Overshoot (Paperback)
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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