The California Iceberg

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A novel for younger readers. In the near future, many areas of the United States are stricken by drought. Atomic-powered tugboats tow six thousand million ton icebergs from the Antarctic to provide fresh water for these areas.

Todd Wells flies out to join his father, who is Captain of one of the tugs. When a violent storm threatens to tear loose one of the icebergs, Todd becomes involved in a struggle to save the water, and the lives of the people on the tug.

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Harry Harrison

Harry Harrison (born Henry Maxwell Dempsey, 1925–2012) was an American science fiction (SF) author, best known for his character the Stainless Steel Rat and for his novel Make Room! Make Room! (1966). The latter was the rough basis for the motion picture Soylent Green (1973). Harrison was (with Brian Aldiss) the…

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