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EARTH. 2040:

World areas expected to be submerged when Greenland and

Antarctic ice sheets fully melt.

Large portions of Estonia, Denmark, eastern Britain, northern

Germany, and northern Poland.

The Netherlands.

Western Siberia (the Occidental Plain) east of the Urals,

linking the Black Sea to the Caspian and Azov seas, nearly to

the Arctic.

Lowlands of Libya, Iraq.

The Hindustan and Indus Valleys in India.

Portions of northeastern China.

Southwestern New Guinea and a large bight extending into

the Eastern Australian Desert.

The Lower Amazon and La Plata valleys, the Yucatan Peninsula.

Large portions of the states of Georgia, North Carolina,

and South Carolina.

Florida, Louisiana. . . .

"The prime attraction of Earth is the author's unfailing

resourcefulness in extrapolating a post-greenhouse effect

future that is plausible, dismaying, and amazing in equal

parts. . . . Erin's prose ranges from regular to high octane

... his characters have vivid intellectual lives." --Entertainment Weekly

"It is indeed a book that anyone interested in the survival

of our terrifying species should read."--Interzone

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EARTH, 2040:

Archaic or obsolete activities or occupations:

. . . flint knapping, entrail reading, arrow fletching . . .

smithing, barrel making, art appraising . . . clock making,

reindeer herding, dentistry, handwriting . . . game-show host,

channeler, UFOlogist . . . drug smuggler, golf course manager,

confidential banker . . . sunbathing, drinking tap-

water . . .

New service professions:

. . . household toxin inspector, prenuptial genetic counselor,

meme adjustment specialist . . . indoor microecologist,

biotect, prenatal tutor, cerebrochemical balance advisor . . .

Net-SIC consultant, voxpop arbitrageur, ferret designer, insurance

life-style adjuster . . .

World human population figures:

1982: 4.3 billion

1988: 5.1 billion

2030: 10.3 billion

"A major effort conceived with great imagination and

written with Brin's usual panache." --Locus

"Fully dimensional and engaging characters with plausible

motivations . . . Brin's exciting prose style will

probably make this a Hugo nominee, and will certainly

keep readers turning pages." --Publishers Weekly

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Bantam Spectra Books by David Brin

EARTH

HEART OF THE COMET

(with Gregory Benford)

THE POSTMAN

THE PRACTICE EFFECT

THE RIVER OF TIME

STARTIDE RISING

S U N D I V E R

THE UPLIFT WAR

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EARTH

DAVID BRIN

BANTAM BOOKS

NEW YORK • TORONTO • LONDON • SYDNEY • AUCKLAND

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this book is stolen property. It was reported as "unsold and destroyed"

to the publisher and neither the author nor the publisher has

received any payment for this "stripped book."

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TO OUR COMMON MOTHER

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AUTHOR'S PREFACE

As writers go, I suppose I'm known as a bit of an

optimist, so it seems only natural that this novel

projects a future where there's a little more wisdom

than folly . . . maybe a bit more hope than despair.

In fact, it's about the most encouraging tomorrow

I can imagine right now.

What a sobering thought.

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EARTH

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PART I

PLANET

First came a supernova, dazzling the universe in brief,

spendthrift glory before ebbing into twisty, multispectral

clouds of new-forged atoms. Swirling eddies spiraled until

one of them ignited—a newborn star.

The virgin sun wore whirling skirts of dust and

electricity. Gas and rocks and bits of this and that fell

into those pleats, gathering in dim lumps . . .

planets . . .

One tiny worldlet circled at a middle distance. It

had a modest set of properties:

mass—barely enough to draw in a passing asteroid or

two;

moons—one, the remnant of a savage collision, but

big enough to tug deep tides;

spin—to set winds churning through a fuming

atmosphere;

density—a brew that mixed and separated, producing

an unpromising surface slag;

temperature—heat was the planet's only voice, a

weak one, swamped by the blaring sun. Anyway, what

can a planet tell the universe, in a reedy cry of infrared?

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2 DAVIDBRIN

"This exists," it repeated, over and over. "This is a

condensed stone, radiating at about three hundred

degrees^ insignificant on the scale of stars.

"This speck, a mote, exists. "

A simple statement to an indifferent cosmos—the

signature of a rocky world, tainted by salty, smoke-blown

puddles.

But then something new stirred in those puddles. It

was a triviality—a mere discoloration here and there. But

from that moment the voice changed. Subtly, shifting in

timbre, still faint and indistinct, it nevertheless seemed

now to say,

"I ... am . . ."

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