Mother of Storms is a 1994 science fiction novel by American writer John Barnes.

[1] In the early 21st century, the Earth suffers from a giant hurricane spawned by the release of clathrate compounds, as the result of a nuclear explosion.

The hurricane spawns hundreds of progeny, which kill at least 1 billion people by the novel's end.

Two massively computer-augmented human intelligences (both of whom witness their organic bodies die) race to corral a comet from beyond Pluto's orbit.

They use the ice from the comet to reduce the Earth's surface temperatures, and quell the mother of storms.