REISSUES
Our pick of the paperbacks this month:
TERMINATION SHOCK
(★★★★☆ , out now, The Borough Press). The big theme of Neal Stephenson’s near-future tale is geoengineering -the possibility of reversing global heating. Could it work, and what might the consequences be for humanity? We said: “A giddy collision of ideas, action and character types… The book’s strangely paced, but when it does gather momentum, it really flies, with a thrill-filled final 200 pages that you may find yourself reading in a single sitting.” Zeno Cho’s