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environmental-disaster
The chapter details natural and man-made disasters including a brush fire and a landslide that disrupt the community's power and operations.
1 chapter across 1 book
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang (1976)Kate Wilhelm
Chapter 28
In this chapter, a brush fire and a subsequent landslide disrupt the valley's power supply, threatening the cloning laboratory's operation. Suspicion falls on Mark, a young man with a mysterious and alien intelligence, who is planning an expedition to salvage materials from a naval base at Norfolk. Despite distrust and accusations, Mark leads a group of youths into the forest to establish a new settlement, while covertly preparing to administer sleeping pills to the breeders, suggesting a secretive and possibly subversive agenda.