Sci-fi

Ill Wind

by Doug Beason
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Description

It is the largest oil spill in history: a supertanker crashes into the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco Bay. Desperate to avert environmental damage (as well as the PR disaster), the multinational oil company releases an untested designer oil-eating microbe to break up the spill. What the company didn't realize is that their microbe propagates through the air... and it mutates to consume anything made of petrocarbons: oil, gasoline, synthetic fabrics, plastics of all kinds. And when every piece of plastic begins to dissolve, it's too late....

What it’s like

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Details

First published
June 1995
Pages
576
Reading time
About 12 hours
Format
Novel
Audience
Adult
Publisher
Tor Science Fiction
Language
English
ISBN
9780765357762
Series
Standalone

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