The Gossamer Crown: Book One Of The Gossamer Sphere - Plot & Excerpts
“Sir?” he asked in his borrowed accent. “Isn’t there a shopping center near the cruise terminal?” “There is.” “Would you drop us there instead?” “Anything you say, mate. Mind if I turn on the radio? Last I heard, the Chunnel’s been closed. Leaks, you know, from all these blasted little earthquakes popping up in strange places, now that the whole world’s gone anti-clockwise.” “Sure,” Kevin said, wondering what a ‘chunnel’ was. The cabbie turned on his radio and tuned it to a news station. Len had mentioned something about volcanoes, and now Kevin and the others were treated to a sobering account of just how bad it really was. The female announcer said, “Normally, tectonic plate movement over the course of a year is measured in centimeters, but geologists say the latest satellite measurements of the Pacific Plate show that it has moved almost a meter in the last week alone. Earthquakes have literally been too numerous to count, but there have been more than seventy volcanic eruptions along the ring of fire in the last twenty-four hours, more than would normally occur in a month, with hundreds more volcanoes showing signs of activity. Now word has come in that even volcanoes considered long extinct are reawakening. Authorities in the U.S., Canada, the Philippines, Mexico, Indonesia – indeed, most of the affected countries – are calling for mass evacuation in some coastal areas. Ash clouds are interfering with air travel and causing health hazards. Damage has been immeasurable, with whole towns lost, and the death toll–”
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