Bøger af Jerry Cimisi

On September 11, 2001, a businessman at the World Trade Center is called to retrieve a colleague's papers ten floors below his office and thus escapes the destruction of the plane smashing into the tower. Out on the street he abruptly decides to let everyone believe he is dead-and thus becomes "The New Man." Crossing the river into New Jersey, chance finds him in a Muslim neighborhood. Over the condensed surrealness of the week's upheaval, he meets twin Iraqi shop owners, an Iranian woman who claims to be the wife of the one of the Saudi hijackers, an Egyptian psychiatrist who is an amateur astronomer, and a former double of bin Laden (who did indeed have one). In an America abruptly forced to confront the Muslim world, the 9/11 survivor discovers his coworker's papers contain intelligence links to America's operations among the jihadists that had sent their fury into the heart of New York that September morning.

January 2020: a mysterious virus is locking down Wuhan. The Chinese government worries the new pathogen came from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Nanotechnician Po Fan uses viruses as templates for fabrics, virologist Chang Cheng has searched bat-filled caves for coronaviruses, and Fan's boyfriend, Zhen Li, is a taikonaut in training for China's forthcoming mission to the moon.Their pursuits will be transformed by SARS-CoV-2. Fan sees the relation of the virus to the nanoworld, and initiates using parts of the virus to create a nanoweave for medical masks; Cheng is conscripted by the government for epidemic tasks he feels are drawing him away from essential research--and from the origins of the virus itself. Then Li's training simulations strangely turn from virtual to apparent reality. Quarantined with COVID-19, he seems to literally walk on the moon, encountering artifacts and even beings--imaginary, or not?

A wealthy yachtsman turned environmentalist captains an expedition to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, the enormous island of plastic garbage swept seaward from the Americas and Asia. The eccentric mates of The Argus, of researchers and a newswoman documenting the voyage, are chronicled by a science reporter, who finds her African-American heritage a chance balance between its white crew, and the Central Americans who man the ship. But the voyage transforms into an odyssey more bizarre than scientific. The crew confronts a conceptual artist's huge construction of plastic islands, the e-waste dumps of China, Pacific pirates led by a Somali bred in Africa's own garbage wastelands, and the possibility that in midocean the degraded plastic of humanity becomes something menacing beyond the inanimate.