- Paperback: 544 pages
- Publisher: Bantam (4 Feb 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0553507060
- ISBN-13: 978-0553507065
- Product Dimensions: 17.4 x 10 x 4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 232,370 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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What if insect DNA was pre-programmed to self-destruct once every 33 million years? What would happen if it happened today...out of this strange, disturbing scenario comes this chillingly plausible and exciting thriller of an ecologically induced Armageddon...
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The good news: the bugs are all dead.
The bad news: we’re next.
The change begins silently, imperceptibly, inexorably. One natural effect topples into the next, like an array of dominoes that stretches to every corner of the globe. Before anyone realizes it, the earth’s ecology has utterly transformed itself. And the days of the old world are finished.
In an idyllic Long Island community, paleobiologist Richard Sinclair is one of the first to suspect that the environment has begun to wage bloody, terrifying war on humanity. What initially appear to be random, unrelated events are, in actuality, violent eruptions in a worldwide biological chain reaction. Along with a brave group of survivors, Sinclair must learn to understand the catastrophe while it roils around them, slowly crumbling a panicked world and energizing a reactionary fringe that welcomes the apocalypse. The survival of humankind depends on finding an answer immediately – for all else is dust.
Charles Pellegrino, whose dinosaur cloning theory provided the scientific basis for Michael Crichton’s bestselling Jurassic Park, has fashioned a heartstopping thriller which uses scientific speculation as the foundation for a masterful exercise in edge-of-the-seat suspense. Brilliantly inventive, frighteningly authentic, Dust is a pulse-pounding reading experience that will leave readers gasping for breath as its heroes confront the final destiny of their species.
‘At last, a novel even scarier than Jaws’ Arthur C. Clarke
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Dust, perhaps not one for the 'End of the World' novice. Hard going at times, a little 'heavy' in places. It's always good to come across an author who isn't afraid to kill one or two important characters off when you don't expect it.I've ploughed through about 40 Post Apocalyptic / 'End of the World As We Know It' type novels in the past two years, some excellent, some less than excellent and I have no regrets about having read this one.
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Can the demise of bugs and other insects bring down civilization? That's what this book is about. From the beginning of life on Earth, with touchdown at the extinction of the dinosaurs, to one of the moons of Saturn, Dust explores biology, geology and other sciences in search of answers of old and (chilling) new riddles. Not always brilliant, but interesting, thrilling and always full of knowledge.
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Although other reviewers have rated this book execellent, I found it very hard going. The book is classed as a thriller, but is more akin to a Science Fiction Book (although I'm sure other's would disagree), and from the start I admit I am no real fan of science fiction.
Yes, the research was excellent, and certainly you completely beleive everything the author says could happen in regard to Mother Nature, although his work on nuclear Silos and the release of nuclear weapons seems to date from early Cold War practice,and does not represent the current system in place. Yes, if you want to read a book on how the world could end via Mother Nature herself, this is the book for you.
Yet I feel that the book reads more like an academic paper than a novel. The characters have no feel to them whatsoever, and therefore seem hollow and wooden, thereby making the book appear to be more distant. Furthermore at times the author goes into far too much detail, and loses the reader.
Most books I buy and read continously, Dust was more of a chapter at a time.
Yes, the research was excellent, and certainly you completely beleive everything the author says could happen in regard to Mother Nature, although his work on nuclear Silos and the release of nuclear weapons seems to date from early Cold War practice,and does not represent the current system in place. Yes, if you want to read a book on how the world could end via Mother Nature herself, this is the book for you.
Yet I feel that the book reads more like an academic paper than a novel. The characters have no feel to them whatsoever, and therefore seem hollow and wooden, thereby making the book appear to be more distant. Furthermore at times the author goes into far too much detail, and loses the reader.
Most books I buy and read continously, Dust was more of a chapter at a time.
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An eco disaster that could happen today , if not tommorrow. A book that shows that mankind is not master on this planet ,that we are powerless against the wishes of nature. Read more
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Absolutely top book. Read now.
This is one phat book. The attention to detail regarding facts is incredible; surely it must've taken decades to research. Read more
Published on 23 April 2001
An exciting, fast-moving story with plenty of good science.
I really enjoyed this book - a first-rate eco thriller. The idea behind it is strong enough to be scary, the writing is excellent, basically, I couldn't put it down. Read more
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