Partly based on fact (African bees have indeed bred with South American bees to form a large and belligerent hybrid), the novel is well researched and written, as are Earthsound ( 1975), in which a seismologist attempts to warn sceptical New Englanders of an approaching earthquake and is thought to be merely hysterical, and Heat ( 19), an early attempt to deal with the greenhouse effect (see Climate Change), which is seen in technofix terms as a problem solvable by an American scientist with the aid of his President more tellingly one character asks a rhetorical question, after politicians hope to deny there is a problem: "I wonder what they'll feel a hundred years from now when they find out that people in the twentieth century knew what was coming and kept their mouths shut." Several of his sf novels focus on Disasters, beginning with his first, The Swarm ( 1974), which convincingly posits an ecological catastrophe when the African honey-bee mutates and invades North America (see Ecology Hive Minds), eventually besieging New York. (1927-2010) US editor and author who also worked with the Peace Corps and as a political manager.
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