It is the largest oil spill in history: a supertanker crashes into the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco Bay. Desperate to avert environmental damage (as well as the PR disaster), the multinational oil company releases an untested designer oil-eating microbe to break up the spill.What the company didn’t realize is that their microbe propagates through the air … and it mutates to consume anything made of petrocarbons: oil, gasoline, synthetic fabrics, plastics of all kinds. And when every piece of plastic begins to dissolve, it’s too late.… Kevin J. Anderson has published more than 180 books, 58 of which have been national or international bestsellers. He has 24 million copies in print in 34 languages. He has written numerous novels in the Star Wars, X-Files, and Dune universes, as well as the unique Clockwork Angels steampunk trilogy with legendary Rush drummer Neil Peart. His original works include the Saga of Seven Suns series, the Wake the Dragon and Terra Incognita fantasy trilogies, the humorous Dan Shamble, Zombie P.I. series and The Dragon Business series. He has edited numerous anthologies, written comics and games, and the lyrics to two rock CDs as companions to his Terra Incognita trilogy. Anderson is the director of the graduate program in Publishing at Western Colorado University, and he and his wife Rebecca Moesta are the publishers of WordFire Press. Doug Beason (Col, USAF, ret.) is the author of fourteen books-eight with collaborator Kevin J. Anderson-as well as two non-fiction books. Assemblers of Infinity was a Nebula Award finalist. Doug's short fiction has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, and he has written for publications as diverse as The Wall Street Journal, Analog, Amazing Stories, Physical Review Letters, and Physics of Fluids, to Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in Science, Technology and Society. Doug and Kevin J. Anderson's coauthored novel, The Trinity Paradox, holds the distinction of being the first work of fiction ever nominated for the American Physical Society's Forum Award for promoting the understanding of physics in society, and was the first novel ever reviewed in Physics Today.Doug recently served as Chief Scientist for the USAF Space Command and is Chairman of the Auburn University Wireless Engineering Board of Directors. He is currently the Senior Vice President for Special Programs at Universities Space Research Association, a non-profit entity of 105 PhD granting institutions established jointly by NASA and the National Academy of Science to conduct research in space science