Maelstrom
by Peter Watts
Publisher: Tor Books 2001
ISBN/ASIN: 0312878060
ISBN-13: 9780312878061
Number of pages: 380
Description:
This is the way the world ends: A nuclear strike on a deep sea vent. The target was an ancient microbe -- voracious enough to drive the whole biosphere to extinction -- and a handful of amphibious humans called rifters who'd inadvertently released it from three billion years of solitary confinement. The resulting tsunami killed millions. It's not as through there was a choice: saving the world excuses almost any degree of collateral damage.
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