I so enjoy reading literary novels that address climate change—Ben Lerner’s ‘10:04’ and Margaret Drabble’s ‘The Dark Flood Rises’ are two examples—and some have called Stewart’s ‘Storm,’ written Jan 1938, the first climate change novel. The storm at the center of this book, named Maria by the “Junior Meteorologist” watching her, is the main character and the other humans are reacting and responding according to their roles: the Line Dispatcher is making sure telephone and radio lines function, the Superintendent is making sure mountain highways stay clear, and so on, all dependent on information from the senior and junior meteorologists based in San Francisco. Despite extensive passages about weather and its changes, the story remains compelling and it goes fast. Will the Streamliner train between Chicago and San Francisco get through on time? What happens to Rick, the line repairman? Stewart’s musings on the meanings of weather to humans through time are also interesting—he has such faith in science, that he predicts that worldwide cooperation may, “a century hence,” make weather entirely predictable (233). What he could not predict in 1938 was that climate change would make weather even more unstable, confounding the historical patterns meteorologists relied upon. Yet he does recognize the humbling effects of storms on even humans’ best weapons: “drought or flood, cold wind and ice, heat, blown dust, shift of the storm track—in the end they overcome even the imperturbable machines” (207).