Watermind - Softcover

Buckner, M. M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0765359901 ISBN 13: 9780765359902

Publisher: Tor Science Fiction, 2009

Synopsis

From storm drains, illegal dumps, and flooded landfills, all of North America’s most advanced technology flows down the Mississippi River—microchips, nano-devices, pharmaceuticals, genetically modified seed—and lodges in the Louisiana delta. Out of this mire emerges a self-organized neural net, drifting in the water: the Watermind. It can freeze, boil, condense, and move—seemingly at will.

CJ Reilly is a brilliant, sexy, self-destructive dropout working on a crew cleaning up a pollution spill in Devil’s Swamp near Baton Rouge, when she and her new lover, Max, discover the mysterious Watermind. Reilly’s more interested in investigating it than containing it, but when it kills someone and escapes into the Mississippi, corporations, governments, protesters, the Coast Guard, and a really wacky underground journalist get involved. And there’s no longer any question that it must be destroyed before it reaches the ocean.

About this title

About the Author:

M.M. Buckner won the Philip K. Dick Award for her last SF novel, War Surf. She lives in Brentwood, Tennessee.

From AudioFile:

WATERMIND is an ecological horror story that could give Dean Koontz a run for his money. Consider all the billions of microchips, nanotechnology, drugs, and biological material that end up in our rivers. Buckner theorizes that it's only logical that all that matter coalesce into a primal soup that could create a living creature of liquid. Narrator Tanya Eby Sirois gives voice to heroine C.J. Reilly, an underrated scientist who is conflicted with feelings of self-doubt and massive daddy issues. WATERMIND is a modern retelling of THE BLOB, except this time the creature comes not from outer space, but from our own excesses. Sirois's sensitive narration makes listeners care for the creature, which only wants what we all want, to live free. M.S. © AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine

About this edition

• Publisher: Tor Science Fiction
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0765359901
• ISBN 13: 9780765359902
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 368