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    Ill Wind

    By Kevin J. Anderson

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    Kevin J. Anderson & Doug Beason A supertanker crashes into the Golden Gate Bridge, spilling oil. Desperate to avert environmental & PR disaster, the oil company uses an oil-eating microbe to break up the spill. But the microbe, becomes airborne . . . and mutates to consume petrocarbons: oil, gas, synthetic fabrics, plastics. When all plastic begins to dissolve, it's too late. . .

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWordFire Press
    Release dateAug 2, 2010
    ISBN9780967354842
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    Kevin J. Anderson

    Kevin J. Anderson has written dozens of national bestsellers and has been nominated for the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and the SFX Readers' Choice Award. His critically acclaimed original novels include the ambitious space opera series The Saga of Seven Suns, including The Dark Between the Stars, as well as the Wake the Dragon epic fantasy trilogy, and the Terra Incognita fantasy epic with its two accompanying rock CDs. He also set the Guinness-certified world record for the largest single-author book signing, and was recently inducted into the Colorado Authors’ Hall of Fame.

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    • 3/5
      This story shared a lot of background and with the aftermath in Barnes' "Directive 51", though the plot through the post-apocalyptic world is different and the antagonists have different goals. Not a bad read.
    • 5/5
      I read this book on a 'trust me' from a friend and I am sooo grateful to that friend. It is a fascinating fictional account on what might happen if a terrible disaster rendered the country without those things we now consider 'givens'. (read a galley of the original published version)
    • 2/5
      The characters are flat caricatures, it was too easy to tell who the Bad Guys & Good Guys were going to be. Women were either ugly & too smart, or enticing (even if smart). Couldn't really call it post-apocalyptic, since half the book describes how the environmental meltdown occurs--all the regulations & safety features (that of course major corporations have in place) are useless in the face of human error & malfeasance. And the scenario isn't well thought out---months after the destruction of petroleum-based products, with no transport of goods, people stilll haven't run out of food, or paper towels, or...hey, how are they cooking food? Out in the desert areas of NM, still have plenty of wood for fires?Without wantiing to appear sexist, I'd still have to say it was written for men: lots of military action, hierchical decision-making, to say nothing of the (above) portrayal of women.
    • 2/5
      A genetically engineered oil-eating microbe mutates and eats all the plastic in the world. This was a greatpremise, but this book didn't live up to my expectations of the aftermath of such a disaster.-- Tim
    • 4/5
      Very interesting book. In the near future, an oil ocmpany has developed an experimental method of cleaning up oil spills. When a tanker breaches in the San Francisco Bay, they want to use it. Before they can be stopped, the unleash a genetically engineered bacteria to "eat" the spill. It works - and then it starts eating other man-made things.