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One woman's brilliant invention unleashes a high-tech plague against humanity in this explosive eco-science-fiction thriller. Storm Freeman gave the world a miracle. She designed The Gatherer to draw electromagnetic energy from the air and disperse free and infinite electricity to rural and underprivileged communities. Her invention helped people but devalued power industries. Some revered Storm as a deity. Others saw her as an eco-terrorist. Then the miracle became a curse. The Gatherer unleashed a plague that damaged the human electrical system, bringing pain, suffering--and eventual death--to anyone continually exposed to the technology. Stricken herself, Storm goes into exile, desperate to find a cure--and destroy her invention. But there are people in the government and in the corporation that funded The Gatherer who refuse to publicly acknowledge the connection between the device and the spreading plague. And they will stop at nothing to find Storm and use her genius for military applications . . . Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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The idea that a new invention that does a lot of good turns out to have really bad side effects is the basis of most zombie and runaway disease stories. Here it is a machine that gathers free energy from the earth's atmosphere and converts it into electricity but that it starts grabbing the wrong kinds of energy, causing a plague. There is nothing wrong with reusing the invention gone wrong trope, but the book needs to be much better written than this one. There are so many holes in this story that it would be boring to list them. One of the biggest – or maybe littlest – is that somehow the Canadian tundra has no mosquitoes. Either the author forgot them or somehow all the scientists on earth did.
The cover of the book is so absolutely inappropriate it made me mad.
I received a review copy of "The Gatherer" by Colleen Winter from Rebel Base Books through NetGalley.com. ( )