Title: Short; mostly harmless
Product review: A nice little SF novel, with geology/meteorology/earth science as the 'S' value. The next Ice Age, the warming after that, and a novel weapon-gadget that explains Charles Fort's rains of fishes, frogs, etc. Old-fashioned, as SF reads: a puzzle to solve, no characters to develop, admire the coolness of the conceit and then move on. Things that make it feel especially dated: no computers, telefacsimile is the state of the art in information transfer (this a couple hundred years into the future, mind), and the whole idea of "climate change" meaning glaciation not global warming. The all-woman military of the far future may have seemed far-out radical in 1973, less shocking now.Harmless, but not much better than that. It took me 30 years to get around to reading it, and I wasn't missing anything in that time
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