Written at the point when personal computing, cyberpunk, ecological crisis and New Age spirituality were beginning to occupy the same cultural weather system, Strange Weather asks who gets to define science. 

The book’s argument is not that science is fraudulent, nor that every countercultural challenge is liberatory. It is that science and technology are social formations: shaped by institutions, labour, class, military power and corporate investment rather than delivered untouched from some hygienic kingdom of pure fact. It's particularly interesting on exploring technology as a workplace conflict, widening “hacking” beyond glamorous computer dissidence to include workers attempting to resist automation, deskilling and the theft of their time.

Sometimes it is very 90's, however, it captures the moment before the internet was fully privatised, climate discourse professionalised and technological inevitability hardened into the ambient religion of modern life. A strange, argumentative precursor to contemporary writing on platforms, AI, climate futures and the politics of expertise—occasionally unruly, but alive in ways cleaner books rarely are. Later commentary has recognised it as an unusually early cultural critique of climate framing, technofutures and the power embedded in scientific prediction. 

First edition, Verso, 1991. Paperback with moderate rubbing, edge wear and creasing; curled corners and some surface marking. Internally clean and sound.