false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170651982m/66477.jpg 66477 3 An enormous tidal wave on the west coast of North America has just killed thousands. Lenie Clarke, in a black wetsuit, walks out of the ocean onto a Pacific Northwest beach filled with the oppressed and drugged homeless of the Asian world who have gotten only this far in their attempt to reach America. Is she a monster, or a goddess? One thing is for sure: all hell is breaking loose.This dark, fast-paced, hard SF novel returns to the story begun in Starfish: all human life is threatened by a disease (actually a primeval form of life) from the distant prehuman past. It survived only in the deep ocean rift where Clarke and her companions were stationed before the corporation that employed them tried to sterilize the threat with a secret underwater nuclear strike. But Clarke was far enough away that she was able to survive and tough enough to walk home, 300 miles across the ocean floor. She arrives carrying with her the potential death of the human race, and possessed by a desire for revenge. Maelstrom is a terrifying explosion of cyberpunk noir by a writer whose narrative, says Robert Sheckley, "drives like a futuristic locomotive." 871405 2001 Maelstrom (Rifters, #2) total:142|5:28|4:63|3:42|2:8|1:1| 142 535 199 18 4 2 false false Fri Feb 06 06:08:59 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 25 20:09:39 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 30 11:05:13 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 18 09:19:20 -0800 2008 1 Starfish, he really had no choice but to bring the story to the surface. Here, a hate-filled Lenie Clarke takes a walk across North America, er, "N'Am,"...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun May 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 03 21:41:35 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 03 21:46:45 -0700 2009 1 Accelerando upside-down, and Maelstrom is what shakes out. Still supernaturally accelerated, Maelstrom's bleak future starts with a nuclear bomb dropped into a deep-sea vent, and resulting earthquakes that destroy much of the Pacific Northwest. It gets bl...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Mar 31 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Mar 26 15:06:40 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 31 09:26:46 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Fri Jun 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 15:53:11 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 19 05:46:58 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Sep 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 16 05:40:45 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 16 05:46:30 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Mon Dec 01 14:32:26 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 01 14:32:56 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Thu Aug 09 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Sep 11 05:09:56 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 11 05:09:56 -0700 2009 ]]> 4 0 false false Thu Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Fri Aug 22 19:03:46 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 22 19:03:46 -0700 2008 Starfish. I can't say what it is about without giving away the first book, but Clarke is now out of the ocean and making her way across North America to her childhood home. In this book we get a vivid picture of Clarke's world, strained to near breaking by overpopulati...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 12 13:02:02 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 27 20:25:12 -0800 2009 Blindsight, but oustanding nonetheless.]]> 1 0 false false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 14 11:46:44 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 14 11:55:05 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jun 03 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat May 24 17:41:42 -0700 2008 Fri Nov 14 21:03:18 -0800 2008 Starfish to the cyber-punk of this novel
made things a bit more nebulous in terms of science but didn’t hurt the story
or the characters much. There are even a few interesting chapters through the
eyes of a virus.
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It seemed more disjointed than the other book. I had trouble getting into the different perspectives to the story. When I finally got through it, I found I had enjoyed it. It just took a while to get into it.
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Plus, my soft spot for bacteria/archaea extends to fictional microbes as well.

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