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http://www.amazon.com/Radio-Silence-ebook/dp/B005F9ZP2Y

--Author Previously published by Doubleday, Avon, Warner Books, Bantam, Eos, Spectra, etc.

Book Description:

It’s called the Gray Goo Disaster, a story that’s been told in many ways, almost a subgenre unto itself in the universe of science fiction. They say it’s the inevitable result of nanotechnology, that, sooner or later, someone working in a laboratory or on some future factory floor will say, “Oops!” And that will be that. Gray goo washes over the world and humanity is no more. Sometimes survivors escape to the stars. Sometimes the gray goo itself has some goodness in it, and humanity is allowed to live on. But the reality...? No one knows. If we’re lucky no one will ever know. In “Radio Silence,” a group of blue collar mechanics, men and women lucky to have jobs in a world of endless automation and endless leisure, find themselves swept up in a version of the gray goo disaster. They struggle to survive, and to find a way to stop the disaster. They do find a way to do both, a solution that is as shocking as the disaster itself.

About the Author:

William Barton

William Renald Barton III (born September 28, 1950) is an American science fiction writer. In addition to his standalone novels, he is also known for collaborations with Michael Capobianco. Many of their novels deal with themes such as the Cold War, space travel, and space opera. Barton also has written short stories that put an emphasis on sexuality and human morality in otherwise traditional science fiction. His short fiction has appeared in Asimov's and Sci Fiction, and has been nominated for the Hugo Award, the Theodore Sturgeon Award, the Sidewise Award, and the HOMer Award, and three of his novels (The Transmigration of Souls, Acts of Conscience, and When We Were Real) have been nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award. Barton has recently begun to self-publish his fiction for the Kindle.