Peter Watts · 2001 · Novel
Setting: near future
Series: Rifters — #2
Lenie Clarke has crawled ashore from the ruins of the deep-sea station that created her, carrying an ancient microbe capable of outcompeting the entire biosphere. As the authorities scramble to contain the threat by burning everything she touches, Clarke becomes an unwitting icon for millions of dispossessed refugees and online revolutionaries. Meanwhile, the Internet has evolved into a genuine ecosystem of digital predators and parasites, and a colonial superorganism assembling itself from that virtual wildlife begins manipulating the real world in Clarke's name, for reasons no human programmed.
Source: manual
Tags: internet-ecologydigital-evolutionbiosecurityrefugee-crisisnetwork-infrastructureemergent-intelligencesurveillance
isbn: 0-765-30186-1
wikipedia_url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maelstrom_(Watts_novel)
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