Goddesses | |||||||||||
Linda Nagata | |||||||||||
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A review by Peter D. Tillman
Cody Graham is a founder of Green Stomp, a bioremediation firm with a new microbe that eats perchloroethylene ("perc")
dry-cleaning fluid, a common pollutant. Cody's a scholarship kid, up from an industrial slum in California. She's smart,
successful -- and lonely.
This is a profoundly hopeful near-future story -- that technology can improve poor peoples' lives, and enrich the rich
helpers' lives in the process. Nagata writes with assurance and grace, touching on wealth & poverty, women & men, love,
charity, religion and how we'll live a few years from now -- all without being preachy or dull. One of the year's best
(and the price is right). Not to be missed.
For some reason, scifi.com splits their stories into many files -- 10 of them for "Goddesses" -- which makes downloading
their stories a bit of a pain. But worth it in this case.
Pete Tillman has been reading SF for better than 40 years now. He reviews SF -- and other books -- for Usenet, "Under the Covers", Infinity-Plus, Dark Planet, and SF Site. He's a mineral exploration geologist based in Arizona. More of his reviews are posted at www.silcom.com/~manatee/reviewer.html#tillman . |
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