Notes
Hot Sky at Midnight, a standalone novel by Robert Silverberg.

The image opposite and the blurb below are from the 1995 HarperCollins overseas paperback edition, ISBN 058621108X. Cover illustration by Fred Gambino.

Publisher's Blurb – Lower Cover
'A MASTER OF HIS CRAFT AND IMAGINATION'
Los Angeles Times

There's no mistaking the terminal phase of irreversible catastrophe. The climate has gone berserk. Rising oceans inundate swamps and deserts. Genetic engineers have yet to redesign the human body to cope with the crud in the air, the water, the food, the soil. Now time has run out.

With Earth a lost cause, the satellite worlds twinkling in orbit are prime territory for takeover by the powerful and rich. They are a single battleground on which the richest and most powerful megacorps, Kyocera-Merck and Samurai Industries, fight, no holds barred.

In the artificial purity of satellite air or beneath the bilious skies of Earth, despite newly evolved bacterial plagues and bribe-taking androids, Robert Silverberg's characters pursue destinies both outrageously self-interested and heartwrenchingly familiar in a savagely funny story of our planet's last gasp.