The Storm - Winter, Colleen

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Résumé :
We all make mistakes. But what if you'd made a mistake that endangered the earth and everyone on it? In the standalone finale of redemption and technology-gone-wrong, inventor Storm Freeman has one final chance to take back the device she gave to the world. The Gatherer delivers free, infinite energy along with an illness with no known cure. Afflicted herself, Storm is returning to the compound where she created the device to put an end to the suffering she caused. But when she encounters a Gatherer so corrupted from her original design that she hardly recognizes it, she'll need all her strength and that of those around her, to finally stop the lethal device she created....

Biographie:
With one foot in the world of technology and the other in the world of words, Colleen Winter's fiction explores our relationship with technology and ultimately the choices it requires us to make. She is an electrical engineer and former journalist, and was short-listed for the 2020 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize in Speculative Fiction, has received two Writer's Reserve grants from the Ontario Arts Council, won the Best First Sentence Contest at Thrillerfest, won first prize in the CAA Leacock/Simcoe Erotic prose contest, received a SLS Fellowship from the Unified Literary Contest, and is an alumni of the Humber School of Writers. When she isn't writing, Colleen can be found hiking or climbing the beautiful places of the world or sneaking out for early morning swims in whatever freshwater lake is nearby. She reads to get inspired by Martha Wells, Becky Chambers, Veronica Roth, Blake Crouch, Andy Weir, and Matt Haig. She is a member of Science Fiction Writers of America, The Writers' Union of Canada, and International Thriller Writers. Colleen lives in Ontario with her husband Ron in their empty nest with their loveable, psychotic, reactive dog Kira.

Sommaire:
We all make mistakes. But what if you'd made a mistake that endangered the earth and everyone on it? How far would you go to fix what you'd done? In the standalone finale of redemption and technology-gone-wrong, inventor Storm Freeman has one final chance to take back the device she gave to the world. The Gatherer delivers free, infinite energy along with an illness never seen before and with no known cure. Afflicted herself, Storm is returning to the compound where she created the device to put an end to the suffering she caused. But when she encounters a Gatherer so corrupted from her original design that she hardly recognizes it, she'll need all her strength and that of those around her, to finally stop the lethal device she created....