Earth is plagued by the Black Rain turning water into a gel and destroying the whole ecology. Geo Woodman is on a mission to protect his clan and to save the people of Torono from the upcoming ecological disaster.
Green Corrosion
The Corrosion Series Book 1
by Costi Gurgu
Genre: Post-Apocalyptic, Dystopian Science Fiction
The devastating Black Rain has transformed the once-lush land into an arid wasteland, turning all water into a gel-like substance across the globe. Fresh, drinkable water has become the planet’s most precious commodity, sought after by all. Some have chanced upon underground liquid reserves, while those with no choice but to drink gelled water become “Corrosives,” disfigured by a verdigrislike substance covering their bodies.
The “Corrosion” story
By Costi Gurgu
Initially, I wrote a short story for the National Geographic Magazine in Romania, entitled “Corrosion”. Two main aspects are the most important from an ecological consideration: air and water. If the air becomes too toxic, or too polluted to be breathable, there’s little chance of survival or adaptation. If the water is not potable anymore there’s no chance of survival. So, when the people from National Geographic asked me to write a cli-fi for them, I immediately thought of the most dangerous aspects of environmental degradation. And doing some research, water seemed to be the deadliest.
Now, doing that research I discovered an interesting fact—although the majority of people know that water can be found in three states, some experiments in Austria managed to bring water to a fourth state—that of a gel. And not only bring it into that state but maintain it there. That looked to me like an interesting starting point for my short story.
Anyway, the short story “Corrosion” has been re-printed at least seven times and has won two awards. My editor even compelled me to write a follow-up story, which I did and I entitled it “Pink Corrosion”. The same editor then, said he’d see this series turned into a novel. And I agreed. It took me several years to get to the point of actually doing it, but as soon as I had some time, this was my number one priority.
Costi’s fiction has appeared in Canada, the US, and Europe. He has sold 5 books and over 50 stories for which he has won 24 awards. He was three times a finalist for the Canadian Aurora Awards.
His latest sales include the anthologies Tesseracts 17, The Mammoth Book of Dieselpunk, Dark Horizons, Street Magick, Water, and Alice Unbound.
His bestselling novel RecipeArium has won three awards (Kult, Nemira, and Vladimir Colin) and was a 2018 finalist for the Aurora Awards.
His second novel, “Servitude” was published in October 2022. And his latest novel “Green Corrosion” is book 1 of the “Corrosion” series, and was published in September 2023.
To find out more about Costi Gurgu visit https://costigurgu.com/
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