When a supertanker crashes off the coast of San Francisco, creating the largest oil spill in history, a multinational oil company releases an untested virus designed to break up the spill and causes a biotechnological disaster.

The Way We Lived: Essays and Documents in American Social History : 1865-Present

History

Doug Beason

Kevin J.Anderson

Americas

Houghton Mifflin College Div.

Ignition Paperback Kevin J., Beason, Doug Anderson

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Coronet Books

An incredible discovery on the lunar farside--massive structures being erected by intelligent, living machines--could threaten the lives of the colonists living on the Moon

ASSEMBLERS OF INFINITY

United States

Bantam/Spectra

Spring 1987, Volume 1. Editor: Jim Baen. An anthology of original stories and articles. FICTION INCLUDES: "Point Man" by Timothy Zahn; Iron (serial, part 2 of 2) [Man-Kzin Wars] by Poul Anderson (first part appeared in "Far Frontiers" Volume VII, Winter 1986); "Not for Country, Not for King" by Joel Rosenberg; "Lifeguard" by Doug Beason; "The Graphic of Dorian Gray" by Fred Saberhagen; "Rank Injustice" [Retief] by Keith Laumer. ARTICLES: "Magic Matter" by Robert L. Forward; "In Praise of Sociobiology" by John Gribbin and Mary Gribbin; "The Space Beat: How to Stop a Space Program" by G. Harry Stine.

New Destinies, Volume 1: Spring 1987

Keith Laumer

Timothy ZAHN

Joel Rosenberg

Robert L. Forward

John and Mary Gribbin

fred-saberhagen

POUL ANDERSON

Baen Books

Ill Wind

It's the largest oil spill in history: a crashed supertanker in San Francisco Bay. Desperate to avert environmental damage―and a PR disaster―the multinational oil company releases an untested "designer microbe" to break up the spill.
An "oil-eating" microbe, designed to consume anything made of petrocarbons: oil, gasoline, synthetic fabrics, and of course plastic.
What the company doesn't realize is that their microbe propagates through the air. But when every car in the Bay Area turns up with an empty gas tank, they begin to suspect something is terribly wrong.
And when, in just a few days, every piece of plastic in the world has dissolved, it's too late...

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