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Daily Archives: Sunday, July 10, 2011
Plague Year: Riveting Novel About Nanotechnology Gone Awry
Plague Year is Jeff Carlson’s riveting novel about a nanotech machine plague that breaks out in Northern California, and ultimately kills nearly five billion people. The hook: the machine plague has a hypobaric trigger that renders the plague inert at elevations over 10,000 feet. While I normally do … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, California, Central Asia, China, Climate Change, Defense, Energy Security, Finance and Economics, Food Security, International Security, Mathematics, Media, Middle East, Policy, Politics, Science, Technology, War
Tagged Book review, China, Jeff Carlson, Nanotechnology, Plague Year, Post-apocalyptic thriller, Russia, Technology, United States
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