EARTH.
David. Brin
Paperback
(BANTAM. NY 1990, March 15, 1990)
June 1990 Bantam Spectra jumbo trade paperback, David. Brin (Alas, Babylon). Time is running out. In 2038, the planet is overheated and overpopulated. Economies have failed; income inequality is rampant. An artificial black hole has fallen into the Earth's core. As scientists frantically work to prevent the ultimate disaster, they discover that the entire planet could be destroyed within a year. But while they look for an answer, some claim that the only way to save Earth is to let its human inhabitants become extinct: to reset the evolutionary clock and start over.