Dead water zone
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- ISBN: 0316651028 :
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Physical Description:
125 p. ; 22 cm.
print - Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
- Publisher: Boston : Little, Brown & Company, 1993.
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Summary, etc.: | Muscular sixteen-year-old Paul tries to find his genetically stunted younger brother Sam in the polluted ruins of Watertown, where Sam is trying to cure himself with toxic "dead water" that alters the metabolism of those who drink it. |
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Dead Water Zone
Dead Water Zone EPB Chapter One Paul dreamed machinery. The oiled push of steel pistons, the rustle of rubber hosing, the low roar of a powerful furnace. He walked into his brother's room. Sam sat on the edge of the bed, curling barbells in toward his chestââ¬"right arm, left arm, one, two. Impossible. Sam was too weak to be lifting them. "I'm getting stronger," Sam said. One, two, one, two, effortless. "But how?" Paul asked. "Secrets are subatomic," Sam replied with an enigmatic smile. "What does that mean?" Paul demanded. How typical of Sam to say something clever and not explain it. "What does that mean?" "Look." Sam lowered the barbells to the floor and began peeling off his layers of clothing, one sweatshirt, then another, then anotherââ¬"all the time getting skinnier and skinnier. "You don't have to do this," Paul said anxiously. "You don't have to, Sam. Stop!" But Sam kept stripping off his shirts, until he came to the very last one. Paul knew what was underneath. "Don't!" he shouted. "Sam, please, I'm sorry!" "Paul," his brother said, "watch." There was a blinding flash of skeletal white, but something else, too, something metallic. "No!" Paul shouted. "No, no, no!" He clamped his eyes shut, but the scalding brightness filled his dream vision, white and intense as a camera's flash, then slowly faded to the dark color of deep water. Dead Water Zone EPB . Copyright é by Kenneth Oppel . Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. Available now wherever books are sold. Excerpted from Dead Water Zone by Kenneth Oppel All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.