The nanotechnology was designed to fight cancer. Instead, it evolved into the Machine Plague, killing nearly five billion people and changing life on Earth forever. The nanotech has one weakness: it self-destructs at altitudes above ten thousand feet. Those few who've managed to escape the pla...
I received a free copy of this book in exchange for my unbiased opinion."Plague Zone" by uber-talented Jeff Carlson is a brilliant conclusion to the "Plague" trilogy. These three works of art will make a much more complete story if read in order. In a pinch any of them will work as a stand-alone....
They stared at the landscape. Nothing moved except the wind, which murmured through the array, lifting dust and bits of grass and leaves. The debris flashed and swirled. Long clouds warped the sky. Three hundred yards away, the shed with the generator sat beside the residential home. The windows ...
He’d dropped his pack this morning but kept his pistol and a canteen—and he knew this environment well, if not this particular mountain. The whitebark pines and junipers were a familiar world, the chokecherry brambles and wild grass. There was a †utter of grasshoppers to h...
Vonnie shivered, an intensely ugly sensation inside her suit. She'd locked the joints and torso, becoming a statue, preventing herself from causing any movement whatsoever, but inside it she was still skin and muscle. The feel of her body against this shell was repulsive. Again and again she ca...