Audiobook (abridged)4 hours
Dust
Written by Charles Pellegrino
Narrated by Jay O. Sanders
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
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The good news: the bugs are all dead.
The bad news: we're next.
The change begins silently, imperceptibly, inexorably. One natural effect topples into the next, like an array of dominoes that stretches to every corner of the globe. Before anyone can realize it, the earth's ecology has utterly transformed itself. And the days of the old world are finished.
In an idyllic Long Island community, paleobiologist Richard Sinclair is one of the first to suspect that the environment has begun to wage bloody, terrifying war on humanity. What initially appear to be random, unrelated events are, in actuality, violent eruptions in a worldwide biological chain reaction. Along with a brave group of survivors, Sinclair must learn to understand the catastrophe while it roils around them, slowly crumbling a panicked world and energizing a reactionary fringe that welcomes the apocalypse. The survival of humankind depends on finding an answer immediately - or all else is dust.
Charles Pellegrino, whose dinosaur cloning theory informed Michael Crichton's bestselling Jurassic Park, has fashioned a heart-stopping thriller which uses scientific speculation as the basis for a masterful exercise in edge-of-the-seat suspense. Brilliantly inventive, frighteningly authentic, Dust is a literary ride that will leave listeners gasping for breath as its heroes confront the final destiny of their species.
Author
Charles Pellegrino
Charles Pellegrino is the author of numerous novels and nonfiction titles relating to science and archaeology.
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966-0578799145/8801304916757, - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Very good Story, perfect size .but beware the narrator.. terrible does not justify his narration. Screams at times, many times! But when he intones a Female voice..Arghh!
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Couldn't finish it. Like Crichton, the author takes a plausible scientific question: 'what would happen if insects disappeared?', and places it in absurdly implausiblle political story where presidents engage in lengthy expository philosophical discussions with the only five scientists on the planet that have noticed and can do anything about it. It's written like a stream of consciousness parable told through almost identical voices. The author's attempts at relationships and villians are sophomoric and cartoonish. I enjoy a good fantasy/sci-fi 'what if?' but couldn't find anything real to care about here.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5My reaction to reading this novel in 1998. Spoilers follow.This is the second Pellegrino novel I’ve read, and I really liked this disaster tale though I thought the ending of resurrecting old insects to save humanity was improbably cheerful. The premise that insects might have a millions of years death cycle – and that this death cycle preceded, and perhaps caused, the decline of the dinosaur (which were finished off by an asteroid impact) was novel and speculation based on science according to the Afterword in which Pellegrino outlines the historical and scientific facts behind his tale. (I like that feature of his novels.) The effects of insects dying off – lethal swarms of dust mites, plagues of fungus, the death of higher level insectivores, a lack of plant pollinators – were horrifying and fascinating – exactly what a sf disaster novel should offer. Pellegrino is a fascinating writer not only for the hard science details but for including his scientist friends as characters. (He’s a working scientist in several fields including biology, archaeology, paleontology, and starship engineering.) . Here entomologist E. O. Wilson meets his death at the jaws of dust mites. I also liked the bits with the berserk missileman. If the novel has any flaws, one lies with Pellegrino’s penchant for quotes. Sometimes they’re interesting and relevant; sometimes they aren’t. (I also am surprised to see Pellegrino repeat the oh-too-ironic story about Charles Drew, the inventor of organized American blood banks, bled to death after being denied a blood transfusion because he was black. The other flaw was the villain Jerry Sigmond. I appreciate that Pellegrino was attempting to show how socially destructive sociopaths (i.e. demagogues in some cases) are not obviously different. Still, Sigmond seemed a bit implausible though I appreciate that anti-intellectual and science rhetoric is on the rise.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Scientist and marine archaeologist Dr Charles Pellegrino turns his hand to this thought provoking eco-horror story. At time it might seem that the author gets bogged down in scientific explanation but to many this will only serve to back up the chilling spiral of events with a plausible reason for the reader to think: Oh, but this could happen... couldn't it?The insects are disappearing and the ecological repercussions are devastating. A group of scientists provide some of the focus of the book as they desperately race to find a solution to global events that could lead to the extinction of the human race.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Dust tells the story of the end of life, as we know it, on Earth. It all begins with the seemingly sudden mass extinction of insects, which quickly works its way up the food chain to doom the existence of humans. The first 50 pages of this book were awesome. I was hooked. Then the author just went all over the map with scientific hypotheses and underdeveloped characters galore. There were too many story lines to keep track of and loose ends all over the place which were never explained to my satisfaction. The author noted in the acknowledgments that he was a hyperactive child. His writing style reflects a hyperactive adult as well! My sense is that the author is probably a brilliant scientist, but a natural born storyteller, he is not.