The Nature of Smoke

The Nature of Smoke

3.86 of 5 stars 3.86  ·  rating details  ·  14 ratings  ·  2 reviews
The Nature Of Smoke is a story including a mad scientist, a group of murderous thugs, a nasty dolphin-man, and a girl from Ohio named Cid. Cid discovers a weird form of inter-specific mitochondrial communion.
Paperback, 284 pages
Published June 1st 1997 by Tor Books (first published June 1996)
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Jane
This and her other novel, Accidental Creatures, and both great weird dystopian sci-fi.
jenn
May 15, 2007 jenn rated it 2 of 5 stars  ·  review of another edition Recommends it for: books with swaggering attitudes but poorly written dialogue.
I got this book at a library booksale for a dollar and was a little taken aback by the tagline, "The Outrageous Novel Of One Tough Riot Grrl Against The World!" but then I read it and there is a FRIGGEN DOLPHIN BOY IN IT. And interspecific mitochondrial communion! Who can mess with that?
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