Zodiac

Zodiac
by Neal Stephenson

Zodiac
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Author: Neal Stephenson
Edition: Paperback
Published: 2007-08-10
ISBN: 0802143156
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: Grove Press

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Book Review: how the Earth is being polluted
Summary: 4 Stars

"Zodiac" by Neal Stephenson, ? 1988

The best part of this story is the travel through Boston. It is a pretty good story of how the Earth is being polluted and those who want to save it. The name is the name of the boat the eco-nuts use. The story is not so much a story of whodunit as it is an adventure. Sangamon Taylor runs the group who stumbles onto a scheme to use bacteria to consume Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). This would not be so bad except the opposite happens as well, and that is bad. They have to expose the bad guys and still not be illegal about it. That is their mantra, "Do what you can to expose the evil, but do it so no one goes to jail or has to pay for the action."

Summary of Zodiac

Believe it or not, some readers find Zodiac even more fun than Neal Stephenson's defining 1990s cyberpunk novel, Snow Crash. Zodiac is set in Boston, and hero Sangamon Taylor (S. T.) ironically describes his hilarious exploits in the first person. S. T. is a modern superhero, a self-proclaimed Toxic Spiderman. With stealth, spunk, and the backing of GEE (a non-profit environmental group) as his weapons, S. T. chases down the bad guys with James Bond-like Zen.

Cruising Boston Harbor with lab tests and scuba gear, S. T. rides in with the ecosystem cavalry on his 40-horsepower Zodiac raft. His job of tracking down poisonous runoff and embarrassing the powerful corporations who caused them becomes more sticky than usual; run-ins with a gang of satanic rock fans, a deranged geneticist, and a mysterious PCB contamination that may or may not be man-made--plus a falling-out with his competent ("I adore stress") girlfriend--all complicate his mission.

Stephenson/S. T.'s irreverent, facetious, esprit-filled voice make this near-future tale a joy to read.


Zodiac, the brilliant second novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the The Baroque Cycle and Snow Crash, is now available from Grove Press. Meet Sangamon Taylor, a New Age Sam Spade who sports a wet suit instead of a trench coat and prefers Jolt from the can to Scotch on the rocks. He knows about chemical sludge the way he knows about evil—all too intimately. And the toxic trail he follows leads to some high and foul places. Before long Taylor’s house is bombed, his every move followed, he’s adopted by reservation Indians, moves onto the FBI’s most wanted list, makes up with his girlfriend, and plays a starring role in the near-assassination of a presidential candidate. Closing the case with the aid of his burnout roommate, his tofu-eating comrades, three major networks, and a range of unconventional weaponry, Sangamon Taylor pulls off the most startling caper in Boston Harbor since the Tea Party.

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