Forty Signs of Rain

A Bantam Spectra Book / June 2004

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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.

Copyright © 2004 by Kim Stanley Robinson

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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Robinson, Kim Stanley.

Forty signs of rain / Kim Stanley Robinson.

p. cm.

eISBN 0-553-89817-5

1. Scientists—Fiction. 2. Legislators—Fiction. 3. Washington (D.C.)—Fiction. 4. Business intelligence—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3568.O2893F67 2004 2003063683