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Mote in Andrea's Eye

by David Niall Wilson
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Overview

A young girl loses her father to a hurricane near the end of WWII. She grows up to fight hurricanes for the government. When Operation Stormfury is closed down, she continues herfight and accidentally causes one of the biggest storms in history to head toward the US Coast. Then the storm, and her husband, a US Navy pilot, disappear off the coast of Bermuda. In 2006, they both come back...

Synopsis

A young girl loses her father to a hurricane near the end of WWII. She grows up to fight hurricanes for the government. When Operation Stormfury is closed down, she continues herfight and accidentally causes one of the biggest storms in history to head toward the US Coast. Then the storm, and her husband, a US Navy pilot, disappear off the coast of Bermuda. In 2006, they both come back...

Publishers Weekly

As a child, Andrea Jamieson watches her father die in a hurricane. As a grimly determined young woman running a government storm-fighting project, she falls hard for flyboy Phil Wicks, a retired navy pilot who figures dropping silver iodide on hurricanes beats working for the airlines. The two make a great team at work and at home until Phil flies out into a monster storm that vanishes in the Bermuda Triangle, taking him with it. Those who think of Wilson (The Temptation of Blood) as a horror writer may be surprised by the tender tone of this unabashed descendant of 1940s pulp tales. Tugging heartstrings with the expertise of a master puppeteer, Wilson, a former naval technician, adds plenty of authentic touches but never overwhelms the reader with details. The clean prose, romance and fantasy elements, heart-pounding scenes of man against nature, and topical currency (thankfully not overplayed) will appeal to a wide variety of readers, which makes the overblown YA-style cover all the more unfortunate. (June) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

About the Author, David Niall Wilson

David Niall Wilson has been writing and publishing horror, dark fantasy, and science fiction since the mid-eighties. An ordained minister, once President of the Horror Writer's Association and multiple recipient of the Bram Stoker Award, his novels include Maelstrom, The Mote in Andrea's Eye, Deep Blue, the Grails Covenant Trilogy, Star Trek Voyager: Chrysalis, Except You Go Through Shadow, This is My Blood, Ancient Eyes, On the Third Day, The Orffyreus Wheel, and Vintage Soul – Book One of the DeChance Chronicles. The Stargate Atlantis novel “Brimstone,” written with Patricia Lee Macomber is his most recent. He has over 150 short stories published in anthologies, magazines, and five collections, the most recent of which were "Defining Moments" published in 2007 by WFC Award winning Sarob Press, and the currently available “Ennui & Other States of Madness,” from Dark Regions Press. His work has appeared in and is due out in various anthologies and magazines. David lives and loves with Patricia Lee Macomber in the historic William R. White House in Hertford, NC with their children, Billy, Zach, Zane, and Katie, and occasionally their genius college daughter Stephanie.

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Publishers Weekly

As a child, Andrea Jamieson watches her father die in a hurricane. As a grimly determined young woman running a government storm-fighting project, she falls hard for flyboy Phil Wicks, a retired navy pilot who figures dropping silver iodide on hurricanes beats working for the airlines. The two make a great team at work and at home until Phil flies out into a monster storm that vanishes in the Bermuda Triangle, taking him with it. Those who think of Wilson (The Temptation of Blood) as a horror writer may be surprised by the tender tone of this unabashed descendant of 1940s pulp tales. Tugging heartstrings with the expertise of a master puppeteer, Wilson, a former naval technician, adds plenty of authentic touches but never overwhelms the reader with details. The clean prose, romance and fantasy elements, heart-pounding scenes of man against nature, and topical currency (thankfully not overplayed) will appeal to a wide variety of readers, which makes the overblown YA-style cover all the more unfortunate. (June) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Library Journal

When a devastating hurricane along North Carolina's Outer Banks kills young Andrea Jamieson's father, she devotes her life to finding a way to counterattack nature's most violent storms. She forms her own research corporation and marries a pilot who shares her goal, only to lose him in a monster hurricane that threatens the North Carolina coast before disappearing without a trace in the Bermuda Triangle. Thirty years later, the storm returns, as if waiting for its chance to strike down its implacable enemy. Wilson (The Temptation of Blood) crafts a paranormal thriller that develops with cinematic intensity to its gripping conclusion. A good selection for sf thriller and Bermuda Triangle fans. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Book Details

Published
June 1, 2006
Publisher
Cengage Gale
Pages
285
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9781594144530

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