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Galactic Storm

John Brunner (1951)

SubgenreDystopian / Post-Apocalyptic
Age groupYA 12-17
Content ratingPG-13
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SeriesInterstellar Empire #
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This is John Brunner's first novel, published under the house name "Gill Hunt" by Curtis Warren when Brunner was 17. (Brunner wrote the novel when he was 16; he didn't acknowledge it in an official bibliographical sense until 1983). GALACTIC STORM tells the tale of a young genius who uses a supercomputer to discover an alarming trend of global warming that will see half the world's ice-caps melted within fifty years. This leads to an expedition to the South Pole to investigate the problem, and from there to the discovery of a sinister plot of extraterrestrial origin....