I live in an area that survived some nasty flooding this past spring. About a month later, a funnel cloud formed and rooftops got ripped at. The year before that, tornadoes touched down and we lost power for about a week. Suffice to say that climate change is on my mind lately, which compelled me to read some cli-fi books from my local library. Ben Bova’s Death Wave came up. A good name with a lot of history. I couldn’t go wrong with it. I went wrong with it. Death Wave ended up teaching me what a boring novel looks like with shallow characterization and non-twisted plot.
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