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.

"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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