Nerd of many hats.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13542400-slow-apocalypse … A scientist has developed a cure for America’s addiction—a slow-acting virus that feeds on petroleum, turning it solid. But he didn’t consider that his contagion of an Iraqi oil field would spread to infect the fuel supply of the entire world…
There’s always one. /ThreeStoogesSlap. Stupid autocorrupt.
These creatures you call mice, you see, they are not quite as they appear. They are merely the protrusion into our dimension of vastly hyperintelligent pandimensional beings.
Douglas Adams, [The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy]
Douglas Adam’s was right!
I feel owned? Oh, wait, it’s over now.
TL;DR - putting fish in the rice paddies means the fish get tasty snacks that otherwise would infect people who work in rice paddies.
The author has never met anyone in active ketosis. You might not be able to tell, but those around you typically can. Your breath definitely smells different even to an untrained observer.
It’s a decent book. 3.5 for Goodreads is actually pretty respectable.
The problem is that it’s a decent book from Varley, the guy who wrote Titan/Wizard/Demon and Overdrawn at the Memory Bank. Hell, he wrote the whole of the Eight World “series”. He’s won the Hugo 3 times. Average is a disappointment.