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Ecodeath
Author: | Gene Snyder William John Watkins |
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Doubleday, 1972 |
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Book Type: | Novel |
Genre: | Science-Fiction |
Sub-Genre Tags: | Dying Earth Climate Fiction (Cli-Fi) |
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Prompted by today's growing crisis in ecology, this is a compelling novel about a world suffocating in its own excesses. The time is the not-too-distant future when pollution has become a multi-million dollar industry ruining the atmosphere for a population already depleted of children and old people. Huge waste disposal plants belch out noxious gases twenty four hours a day while their owners make fortunes from the sale of gas masks, water purifiers and survival kits.
Opposing them is a band of guerrillas waging a gallant but losing struggle to destroy the factories and reverse the pollution even as they realize that it may already be too late.
And for two of the opponents the battle has an added personal direction: one because his wife and child have already died and he has vowed to kill the men destroying the atmosphere, and the other because he's determined to...
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