SOLVED. Sci Fi/Apocalyptic. Invasive plant/alien discovered by recently widowed programmer living alone on his property. [s]

[Simon]

A recently widowed programmer living alone, discovers some kind of plant on his property. Goes searching for other people, possibly some black oil-like substance/shadow killing people ( moght have this confused with another book) group goes on a quest to the center of this invasion to find out what it is.

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

When was it published?
Or when did you read it?
Author's gender?
Cover?
Where is it set? Country, state, city, etc.

[Simon]

Lobstergirl wrote: "When was it published?
Or when did you read it?
Author's gender?
Cover?
Where is it set? Country, state, city, etc."

No idea about authors gender. Set in the US, as far as which part I can't guess. Probably read it some 4-5 years ago, from what I can remember the tech/programming mentioned in the book was fairly up to date, so publishing date can't be that much older.

[Jeremy]

You might be thinking of Into the Looking Glass, book 1 of the Looking Glass series by John Ringo and Travis Taylor (sorry, using phone app, so can't post links).

[Kris]

Simon, I added a few details to the header at the top of the page, so your book might be recognized from that description alone. Many members only read the headers.

You can update it by clicking the small "edit" link after the header. This only works on the full Desktop website - not the Mobile website or app. (On the Mobile website, there's a "Desktop version" link at the bottom of the page.)

[Bargle]

Link for Jeremy's suggestion. Into the Looking Glass by John Ringo.

[Jon]

Hi Simon. Long shot but there are similarities in your description to "Prey" by Michael Crichton. It features an unemployed programmer who ends up investigating autonomous black swarms of nanobots.

Prey

[Bargle]

Link Prey by Michael Crichton.

[Simon]

Thanks for the suggestions, but it doesn't seem to be Prey or Into the looking glass I'm afraid

[Simon]

Found it myself after some brainwracking and google-fu, Extinct by Ike Hamill.

[Kris]

Glad you found your book, Simon. Here's the link - Extinct by Ike Hamill.