Boogie Time - Softcover

Castle, Vernon St Clair

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0692881190 ISBN 13: 9780692881194

Publisher: Vernon Castle, 2017

Synopsis

 "Boogie Time" is a contemporary thriller set in the San Francisco Bay Area. An engaging, fast paced, humorous, scientifically accurate tale about the emergence of an organism capable of decomposing plastics and a meditation on the GMO controversy.      An emergent marine fungi propagates by spore dispersal and signs of disastrous things to come begin to unfold on the northwest coast of the USA. There are a lot of plastics in the world. Eco-terrorists intend to strike Citigen, a biotech company located in Oakland, unaware that the company is working on understanding the new organism and organizing the fight against it.

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About the Author

Vernon St. Clair Castle is a third generation Californian, born in 1951. He grew up in Los Angeles, California and attended UCLA as a pre-med student, graduating with a BS in Zoology and minor in Biochemistry. His family were ranchers in the northern reaches of Los Angeles County but after the death of his father in 1952, his mother moved to the city where she worked as a designer. After nearly a decade of travel and work around the world he married in 1984 and undertook the life of family and householder. The decade of travel included a formative period in Asia during the early 1980's when he explored the reality of becoming a Theravada Buddhist monk. For the last thirty five years Vern has lived and worked in West Marin, California. He taught the sciences in both public and private schools until his retirement in 2013. Currently he and his wife Renee, an encaustic and watercolor artist, divide their new "rewired" lives between Indonesia, Mexico and West Marin, California. For more information, including a photo gallery, or to contact the author please go to www.vernoncastle.com

Edition details

• Publisher: Vernon Castle
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0692881190
• ISBN 13: 9780692881194
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 156