Fifty Degrees Below

FIFTY DEGREES BELOW

A Bantam Spectra Book / November 2005

Published by

Bantam Dell

A Division of Random House, Inc.

New York, New York

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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Copyright © 2005 by Kim Stanley Robinson

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Robinson, Kim Stanley.

Fifty degrees below / Kim Stanley Robinson.

p. cm.

ISBN-10:0-553-80312-3

ISBN-13:978-0-553-80312-9

1. Washington (D.C.)—Fiction. I. Tide.

PS3568.02893F54 2005

813’.54—dc22 2005048074

Printed in the United States of America

Published simultaneously in Canada

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