The #1 New York Times bestselling author returns with a visionary technothriller about climate change 'Stephenson's reputation as a sci-fi titan is deserved' Sunday Times 'His most visionary; and timely; book yet' Chicago Review of Books 'Absorbing speculative fiction' Guardian 'Brilliantly entertaining... at science fiction's cutting edge' SFX 'Ingenious and sometimes prophetic' Telegraph Neal Stephenson's sweeping; prescient new novel transports readers to a near-future world where the greenhouse effect has inexorably resulted in a whirling-dervish troposphere of superstorms; rising sea levels; global flooding; merciless heat waves; and virulent; deadly pandemics. One man has a Big Idea for reversing global warming; a master plan perhaps best described as elemental. But will it work? And just as important; what are the consequences for the planet and all of humanity should it be applied? As only Stephenson can; Termination Shock sounds a clarion alarm; ponders potential solutions and dire risks; and wraps it all together in an exhilarating; witty; mind-expanding speculative adventure.