About the Book
Welcome to the territory. Leave your metal behind, all of it. The bugs
will eat it, and they’ll go right through you to get it… Don’t carry it,
don’t wear it, and for god’s sake don’t come here if you’ve got a
pacemaker.
The bugs showed up about fifty years
ago – self-replicating, solar-powered, metal-eating machines. No one
knows where they came from. They don’t like water, though, so they’ve
stayed in the desert Southwest. The territory. People still live here,
but they do it without metal. Log cabins, ceramics, what plastic they
can get that will survive the sun and heat. Technology has adapted, and
so have the people.
Kimble Monroe has chosen to live in the
territory. He was born here, and he is extraordinarily well adapted to
it. He’s one in a million. Maybe one in a billion.
In 7th Sigma, Gould builds an extraordinary SF novel of survival and personal triumph against all the odds.
