Ill Wind
Kevin J. Anderson; Doug Beason
Language: English
American Contemporary Fiction - Individual Authors + Biotechnology Environmental degradation Fiction Fiction - Science Fiction General High Tech Science Science Fiction Science Fiction - High Tech Thrillers collapse of civilization modern day near future oil spill science fiction adventure
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: Mar 6, 2007
Description:
SUMMARY: It's the largest oil spill in history: a crashed supertanker in San Francisco Bay. Desperate to avert environmental damageand a PR disasterthe multinational oil company releases an untested "designer microbe" to break up the spill. An "oil-eating" microbe, designed to consume anything made of petrocarbons: oil, gasoline, synthetic fabrics, and of course plastic. What the company doesn't realize is that their microbe propagates through the air. But when every car in the Bay Area turns up with an empty gas tank, they begin to suspect something is terribly wrong. And when, in just a few days, every piece of plastic in the world has dissolved, it's too late...