McAuley, Paul

The Secret of Life

Tor:
New York: 2001
First US edition, Hardcover, Near Fine in Fine dust jacket,
413 pp.


Head lightly dusted. McAuley’s won the Arthur C. Clark and Philip K. Dick Awards. He’s pretty good. “A Chinese expedition finds microbial life deep under Mar’s polar cap and secretly brings it back to Earth. Chinese biotech companies want to exploit the extraordinary potential of this tough, ancient life, but industrial espionage leads to the escape of a genetically altered version, the Chi, into the Pacific Ocean. Able to adapt and change at high speed, the Chi’s ever-mutating, fast growing slick is threatening ecological meltdown.” #13936

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