Their leader is an interesting character: a woman who rose from the slums of Mumbai to become a world-renowned expert in nanotechnology. In accordance with the requirements of the inevitable movie version, the Wildfire team consists of a small group of contentious scientists who are dangerously ill-equipped to trudge into the jungle. The elite Wildfire crew will trudge into the jungle and try to keep the planet from being infected. Given that predicament, humanity has just one hope to avoid what the military calls “the ‘gray goo’ scenario” that would kill everyone on Earth: Project Wildfire. But the bigger problem is that the anomaly feeds off energy, which a nuclear explosion would provide in abundance. Wilson suggests that a nuclear strike is problematic because the anomaly is on foreign soil, though such diplomatic awkwardness probably wouldn’t matter if we’re all dead. Wilson was a fine choice to write the sequel to "The Andromeda Strain." (Sara Vanderpas)
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