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September 2012
On Sale: September 4, 2012
448 pages
ISBN: 0441017576
EAN: 9780441017577
Kindle: B007FEFKCC
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"John Varley has won multiple awards for his "imaginative
and engaging"* novels. Now the author of Millennium, Steel
Beach, and Rolling Thunder speculates how people would
survive in a world suddenly stripped of the fuel that makes
it run... Despite wars with Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as
9/11, the United States' dependence on foreign oil has kept
the nation tied to the Middle East. A scientist has
developed a cure for America's addiction--a slow-acting
virus that feeds on petroleum, turning it solid. But he
didn't consider that his contagion of an Iraqi oil field
could spread to infect the fuel supply of the entire
world... In Los Angeles, screenwriter Dave Marshall heard
this scenario from a retired US marine and government
insider who acted as a consultant on Dave's last film. It
sounded as implausible as many of his scripts, but the
reality is much more frightening than anything he could have
envisioned. An ordinary guy armed with extraordinary
information, Dave hopes his survivor's instinct will kick in
so he can protect his wife and daughter from the coming
apocalypse that will alter the future of Earth--and
humanity... *San Francisco Chronicle"--
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