Synopses & Reviews
From storm drains, illegal dumps, and flooded landfills, all of North Americas most advanced technology flows down the Mississippi River—microchips, nano-devices, pharmaceuticals, genetically modified seed—and lodges in the Louisiana delta. Out of this mire emerges a self-organized neural net, drifting in the water: the Watermind. It can freeze, boil, condense, and move—seemingly at will.
CJ Reilly is a brilliant, sexy, self-destructive dropout working on a crew cleaning up a pollution spill in Devils Swamp near Baton Rouge, when she and her new lover, Max, discover the mysterious Watermind. Reillys more interested in investigating it than containing it, but when it kills someone and escapes into the Mississippi, corporations, governments, protesters, the Coast Guard, and a really wacky underground journalist get involved. And theres no longer any question that it must be destroyed before it reaches the ocean.
Review
Praise for
Watermind: “An exciting novel of technological and scientific detection and combat.”
—Asimovs Science Fiction Magazine
“A bold idea. Well-drawn characters. A gripping tale. A first-class novel.”
—Ben Bova
“The action comes crisp and smart in this fast-moving novel, rich in ideas. I liked it a lot.”
--Gregory Benford
“Part techno-thriller, part speculative science, and all quality.”
—Mike Resnick
About the Author
M.M. Buckner won the Philip K. Dick Award for her last SF novel, War Surf. She lives in Brentwood, Tennessee.