Sure, it’s only $3.99, but if you don’t like the book, that’s $3.99 down the drain. So, what authors do you like?
A site called “I write like…” has a fun feature where you can insert a snippet of prose and it will analyze it and match it with a famous author. Using various chapters of Machine Sickness, these are the results:
Margaret Atwood
Anne Rice
Arthur Clarke
Agatha Christie
Ocean Plastic Vanishes
According to the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, only 1% of the plastic calculated to have entered the oceans is still there. The great Pacific Garbage Patch and other maelstroms of floating plastic are only 1% the size they should be. Perhaps polymer-consuming organisms already exist in the oceans and are just waiting to break out on land…
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2014/06/ninety-nine-percent-oceans-plastic-missing
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