Bloom

A plague of self-replicating organisms, the product of twenty-first-century bioengineering, spreads across the globe and forces humanity to flee to the asteroid belt, where a crew of desperadoes is chosen for a suicidal mission.

ISBN 0345424654   Pages 320 ISBN13 9780345424655 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Random House USA Inc   Weight (grammes) 91 Imprint Random House USA Inc   Published in New York Format Paperback   Height (mm) 175 Publication date 04 Oct 1999   Width (mm) 105 Library of Congress PS3563.C33   Spine width (mm) 22 DEWEY 813.54   Academic level General DEWEY edition DC21

"ÝA rousing yet thoughtful adventure story."--The New York Times Book Review "ÝA VIEW OF MANKIND'S FUTURE AND THE UNIVERSE REMINISCENT OF ARTHUR C. CLARKE."--The Denver Post "BLOOM is one of the most fast-paced and powerfully dark visions of nanotechnology gone awry since Greg Bear's Blood Music. McCarthy succeeds on many levels, combining a unique literary style with complex scientific speculation and political intrigue."--Locus "What clever and compelling science fiction! The Bloom future is all too believable."--JAMES GLEICK Author of Chaos: Making a New Science "Wil McCarthy makes ideas jump. Bloom grabs you from the very first scene and doesn't let go till the last page. It's irresistible."--WALTER JON WILLIAMS Author of City on Fire "Swiftly paced, consistently inventive and tightly written."--The Washington Post Book World "McCarthy is an entertaining, intelligent, amusing writer, with Heinlein's knack for breakneck plotting and, at the same time, Clarke's thoughtfulness."--Booklist (starred review) "Bloom is tense, dynamic, intelligent, offering a terrifyingly vivid view of how technology can rocket out of our control."--DAVID BRIN Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author of Startide Rising

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