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| Original Title: | Ill Wind |
| ISBN: | 0765357763 (ISBN13: 9780765357762) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Kevin J. Anderson
Paperback | Pages: 576 pages Rating: 3.59 | 711 Users | 86 Reviews
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| Title | : | Ill Wind |
| Author | : | Kevin J. Anderson |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 576 pages |
| Published | : | March 6th 2007 by Tor Science Fiction (first published June 1st 1995) |
| Categories | : | Science Fiction. Fiction. Apocalyptic. Post Apocalyptic. Thriller |
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It's the largest oil spill in history: a crashed supertanker in San Francisco Bay. Desperate to avert environmental damage—and a PR disaster—the 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...
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Ratings: 3.59 From 711 Users | 86 ReviewsAppraise Of Books Ill Wind
This book is perhaps more topical now than when it was first written. Instead of the Gulf Coast, an oil spill occurs in San Francisco Bay, prompting outrage & cries for a quick response. The oil company that owns the tanker turns to one of their R&D experts, who has developed a microbe that consumes petrocarbons such as crude oil, gasoline, synthetics, styrofoam and plastic. Spray the microbe over the Bay, dissolve the oil, avoid an environmental and PR nightmare. Simple.What the companya lot of interesting ideas of how things could go wrong and possibly be fixed.. but it jumps around to a lot of different characters to do that, and no one got enough development to be a real-seeming person. of course all these random folks converge and reconverge onto one climactic event, which is a lot of coincidences to swallow but makes for a good fun story. it seems to have a decent scientific underpinning, there are lots of details that seem plausible, but then the list of plastics that's
A good idea (the sudden end of the petroleum economy) spoiled by truly awful plotting. Does feature a non-stereotypical mixed race Alaskan Native character, but the plot coincidences are so incredibly implausible as to shatter any suspension of disbelief.
Ya gotta love library clearance sales. I picked up this book cheap at the library. I had never paid any attention to it, although I do like Anderson. And I really like end-of-the-world disaster novels. And I wasn't disappointed. Even though this novel is almost twenty years old, it still held up really well. I did not have to discount the science or pretend that science doesn't matter. I bought the scope of the disaster. I wasn't annoyed by overt politics. And I can believe the ending. I had fun
I started this book with a considerable amount of enthusiasm, which waned slightly as the narrative took too long to get to the actual effects of the disaster. This is not a bad book but my dissatisfaction grew until I became outright impatient to just finish it. Firstly, the book spent far too much time on the characters and nowhere near enough time describing reactions of society to the gradual disintegration of all plastic. I had no real sense of the timelines involved throughout the whole
Ill Wind (1995) by Kevin J. Anderson and Doug Beason."We expose our insecure spots..."This novel seemed to be an extremely logical followup to Michael Crichton's book _The Andromeda Strain_ (1969). For starters, the story's pacing is up to the expectations of contemporary readers, in contrast to the aforementioned work. While "Dramatis Personae" listings sometimes raise a caution flag for me, the wide slate of characters helps provide a variety of backgrounds and perspectives of many real
This is a big "disaster" novel that appeared in 1996; Tor reissued it in 2010 after the big Gulf spill that year, so it's a bit dated but still interesting. There's nothing particularly innovative; the characters are all rather one-dimensional stocks and the plastic/petroleum eating plague has been an sf staple for decades. Nonetheless, it's nicely paced and put-together, and you hope the tree-huggers and good scientists will defeat the evil military and evil government goons, even though you
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