Bloom

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Paperback, 384 pages

Published July 23, 1999 by Del Rey.

ISBN:
978-1-85798-582-5
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OCLC Number:
40647191

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Bloom, written in 1998, is the fifth science fiction novel written by Wil McCarthy. It was first released as a hardcover in September 1998. Almost a year later, in August 1999, its first mass market edition was published. An ebook reprint was published in 2011. Bloom is one of Borders' "Best 10 Books of 1998" and is a New York Times Notable Book. The premise of the book is how to handle human technology that has evolved beyond human control.

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I've read this book before in paperback - I bought the eBook this time from ReAnimus Press. Very easy to read.

Humanity left Earth in a hurry when "technogenic life", nicknamed the "mycora" took over, converting all matter on the planet into more mycora and into spores which mostly can't spread beyond Mars because it's too cold. Humanity moved to moons of Jupiter and to the asteroid belt. This book describes an expedition made from Ganymede to the inner Solar System to see what has developed recently. On the way, they have to stop off in the asteroid belt, where they have telescopes that appear to show life still existing on the Earth and on Venus.

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