Trying to find this book. Title: Spore..something?? Author?

[morkys]

I started reading this book in Highschool (1984-ish to 1988-ish). So it had to be published before 1988 absolute minimum. And with a little math, you'll find out I'm 34. The book is about a meteor which crashes through someones house and it has a spore on it and it escapes etc. I didn't read more than a few pages, but it was interesting. I want to find it. Its not:

Dreamweaver or Dreamcatcher (or whatever from Stephen King)
Doomsday Spore
Death Spore

it could be:

Spore 7

But I haven't been able to find the actual book or any good description of it. A woman named Clancy Carlile. I don't think its this book, but I'll try to grab a copy anyways.

thanx in advance for any help,

 

[GOLLUM]

I started reading this book in Highschool (1984-ish to 1988-ish). So it had to be published before 1988 absolute minimum. And with a little math, you'll find out I'm 34. The book is about a meteor which crashes through someones house and it has a spore on it and it escapes etc. I didn't read more than a few pages, but it was interesting. I want to find it. Its not:

Dreamweaver or Dreamcatcher (or whatever from Stephen King)
Doomsday Spore
Death Spore

it could be:

Spore 7

But I haven't been able to find the actual book or any good description of it. A woman named Clancy Carlile. I don't think its this book, but I'll try to grab a copy anyways.

thanx in advance for any help,

Welcome Morkys!

I think the book you're referring to may be Spore 7 by Clancy Carlile as this book does exist and there's reference to it on amazon. First published 1979.

Found the Book Backcover reference as follows. Does this sound familiar??

"Spore 7 has invaded.
Spore 7 is silent, invisible, grimly relentless
Spore 7 will seize your body, alter your mind, rob your humanity
Is it a germ warfare experiment hatched by an enemy power?
An invader from the depth of space
The work of demons?"

This author has also published Children Of The Dust (1995). It's about the Oklahoma land rush of the 1880s and tells the intertwining tale of dispossessed Indians and freed blacks. Presumbably not fantasy or scf fi but there you go!!

Actually this latter book was also made into a film in 1995 starring the well known black actor Sidney Poitier, so it may be fun for you to track it down although Spore 7 it aint.

Hope this helps!!!

 

[Jayaprakash Satyamurthy]

Good searching, Gollum! All I could find was this not-very-helpful one-liner:

A virulent spore rampages through the United States at a breakneck pace.

On a related note, you might find John Wyndham's The Day of the Triffids interesting. It's a about an invasion by carnivorous plants (created by scientists in secret, and then carelessly allowed to escape) aided by a meteor shower that causes everyone who looked at it to go blind. Yes, that sounds corny, but the book really is oneof the finest of the catastrophe tales ever.

Robin Cook has a lot of tales of microscopic nasties on the rampage - Contagion, Vector, Toxin...He's considered a medical-thriller writer, though, not SF.

 

[GOLLUM]

Good searching, Gollum! All I could find was this not-very-helpful one-liner:

On a related note, you might find John Wyndham's The Day of the Triffids interesting. It's a about an invasion by carnivorous plants (created by scientists in secret, and then carelessly allowed to escape) aided by a meteor shower that causes everyone who looked at it to go blind. Yes, that sounds corny, but the book really is oneof the finest of the catastrophe tales ever.

Robin Cook has a lot of tales of microscopic nasties on the rampage - Contagion, Vector, Toxin...He's considered a medical-thriller writer, though, not SF.

Yep, Day of the Triffids is certianly a classic of the genre.

Bye mate.

 

[morkys]

Well, I have learned that I must simply take a chance. Its been a zillion years since my last post (ok, an exaggeration)... so I am here to report that along with a bunch of David Halberstam novels about Vietnam (Ho, One Very Hot Day and The Best and the Brightest), I order a couple of sci-fi books. I ordered the Dosadi Experiment (Frank Herbert) and Spore 7 by Carlisle Clancy. Within the first few pages, I will know whether or not it is the book I was thinking about.