First published in 1999, GREENHOUSE SUMMER predicted the climate change of the 21st Century and beyond, the warming, the flooding, the losers and the winners, Siberia the Golden and the burning sands of the Lands of the Lost, tropical Paris, fallen capitalism, and much, much more. But this is not dystopia, not a utopia either, this is set in a future where the cultures have evolved morally because they have had. On balance, a better world than ours, but not without problems and intrigues, far from it. If not triumphant, then getting along. It presents a positive if humanly less than perfect picture of what can replace both fallen communism and fallen capitalism, a story of idealism verses selfish self-interest, wherein idealism triumphs, though at a heavy personal price.Needless to say, or maybe not, this is a book that needs to be read, not just again. but rather urgently right now. There are times, such as this, where the common good trumps economic self-interest, and GREENHOUSE SUMMER has been unavailable for too long, which is why it needs to be read now.That much being said, GREENHOUSE SUMMER is also a kind of love story , even a bit of a comedy, in the sophisticated mode of the old Spencer Tracy Katheryn Hepburn movies, not without humor, first and foremost entertaining, as all fiction should be, but entertainment with a higher purpose, and a spirit of hope.