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Review Summaries
"Dust is about a fictional environmental doomsday in modern times. As ecosystems all over earth begin to fall apart and ordinarily passive animals turn ravenous, Richard Sinclair and the other scientists of the "City of Dreams" work to try and unravel why the earth is falling apart. It's a race against time as crops fail, cities fall into anarchy, and exotic diseases claim thousands. Something has been causing mass die-offs throughout geological history, and unless the scientists of the "City of Dreams" can stop it, humanity may become yet another footnote in earth's history."
Mitchell Simonsen, Resident Charles Pellegrino Scholar
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Plot
Composition of Book Descript. of chases or violence - 10% planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 30% Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 30% Descript. of society, phenomena (tech), places - 30%
Tone of book
- depressing/sad
FANTASY or SCIENCE FICTION?
- science fiction story
Explore/1st contact/ enviro story
Yes
Plotlets:
- preventing an ecological disaster
Is this an adult or child's book?
- Adult or Young Adult Book
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- scientist
Age:
- 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Very much smarter than other characters
Physique
- average physique
Main Adversary
Identity:
- natural phenomena
Setting
Earth setting:
- 20th century
Takes place on Earth?
Yes
Style
Person?
- mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately detailed references to deaths
scientific jargon? (SF only)
- a significant amount of technical jargon
How much dialogue?
- roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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