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Author
Index
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Neal
Stephenson |
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Title
Index
Z |
Zodiac |
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| Year |
1988 |
| Publisher |
Bantam
Books |
| ISBN |
0553573861 |
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Synopsis
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Two
centuries after
the Boston Tea
Party, harbor
dumping is still a
favorite local
sport, only this
time it's major
corporations
piping toxic
wastes into the
water.
Environmentalist
and professional
pain in the ass
Sangamon Taylor is
Boston's
modern-day Paul
Revere, spreading
the word from a
40-horsepower
Zodiac raft.
Embarrassing
powerful
corporations in
highly telegenic
ways is the
perfect method of
making enemies,
and Taylor has a
collection that
would do any
rabble-rouser
proud.
After his
latest exploit,
he's wanted by the
FBI, possibly by
the Mafia, and
definitely by a
group of Satanist
angel-dust heads
who think he's
looking for a PCP
factory, not PCB
contamination.
Pretty soon
dodging bullets is
the least of
Taylor's problems
- because
somewhere out
there are an
unhinged genetic
engineer and a
lab-concocted
bacterium that
could destroy all
ocean life ... and
that's just for
appetizers. |
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Review
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Frightening,
funny, fast, and
furious, Zodiac
is thrilling
speculative
fiction torn
straight from
today's headlines.
'Neal
Stephenson
captures the
nuance and the
rhythm of the new
world so perfectly
that one almost
thinks that it is
already here.'
The Washington
Post |
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Credit:
NASA
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X-43
Goes
Hypersonic
NASA's
X-43A
research
vehicle
has
screamed
into the
record
books,
demonstrating
an
air-breathing
engine can
fly at
nearly 10
times the
speed of
sound.
Preliminary
data from
the
scramjet-powered
research
vehicle
show its
revolutionary
engine
worked
successfully
at
approximately
Mach 10,
nearly
7000 mph,
as it flew
at an
altitude
of
approximately
110,000
feet.
"This
flight is
a key
milestone
and a
major step
toward the
future
possibilities
for
producing
boosters
for
sending
large and
critical
payloads
into space
in a
reliable,
safe,
inexpensive
manner,"
said NASA
Administrator
Sean
O'Keefe. |
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NASA
Image of
the day
archive |
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