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Plastiphobia: aka Plastivore
Paperback
Series: Phobias, Book 2
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 1 2025
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.57 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Nonbinary or cis. Scientist or dropout. Human, AI...or something else entirely.
Labels don't matter when the world is coming apart.
It was never meant to survive outside the lab.
But when a genetically engineered microbe escapes into the ocean, it does more than survive-it evolves. Feeding on oil was only the beginning. Now it devours plastic of every kind, from floating waste to the synthetic backbone of modern life.
At first, it looks like a miracle. Oceans begin to heal. Decades of pollution vanish.
Then the ships start sinking.
And when the organism reaches land, the real nightmare begins. Tires crumble. Wires fail. Clothing disintegrates. The infrastructure of civilization starts to collapse.
Stopping it will take an unlikely alliance:
- Alex, who trusts artificial intelligence more than people
- Tatsuo, the visionary scientist whose work may have sparked it all
- Carl, a PhD candidate chasing discovery at any cost
- Jake, a reckless outsider with nothing to lose
As the world unravels, they'll have to decide what matters more-saving the planet, saving humanity...or saving themselves.
Because this time, the apocalypse isn't coming.
It's already here.
A high-stakes, near-future sci-fi thriller about innovation, unintended consequences, and the cost of rewriting nature.
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