Critical Labwork...!
Yeast that likes light ...
That sounds good ...
But wait a minute...!
Could there be
Side Effects ??!
Phylloxera killed
European grapevines...
What if this...
Got out.
Into farmland...
and forests...
Corn with internal yeast
fermenting it to death ...
Rice with internal yeast ...
Wheat with yeast.
Oats.
Famines.
Maple Trees...
huh.
I read this as a teenager.
This is the original cover art.
In high school in the '70s, we had a field trip
to The Ontario Science Centre.
The bookstore had Science Fiction...
Having read The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton,
I thought this novel might be interesting.
It CERTAINLY is .
A lab modified bacteria
that digests plastics...
leaks out of the lab
and proliferates wildly
digesting plastic insulation
on wires, causing
Global Havoc...
Insulation failure causing
fires and errors in
Control equipment.
Plane crashes, etc.
Nuclear Plants.
Very bad.
(Japan has recently discovered
a species that does this...)
That's not just "Science Fiction".
