A review by thistlechaser
The Fog Diver by Joel Ross
1.0
Though this book got good reviews on Amazon, nothing about it worked for me.
Set in the near-future, humans destroyed the world while trying to fix it. In an effort to fix smog, they created nanobots to clean the pollution. The nanobots decided that the humans were the pollution, so they covered 99% of the world with Fog -- white clouds deadly to humans. The remaining humans lived on mountaintops where the Fog couldn't reach. (It really did not make much sense.)
The story centered around a group of kids, Fog Divers. They made short trips into the Fog to try to find stuff to sell.
The book's humor and setting was jarringly bad to me. Like all the kids knew things from the past, but mixed up. Like the great book Star Wars Trek, where the Borg and the Jedi were at war. And the constellations named Elvis Presley, Greta Garbo, etc... I'm sure that was supposed to be amusing, but it completely didn't work for me.
Set in the near-future, humans destroyed the world while trying to fix it. In an effort to fix smog, they created nanobots to clean the pollution. The nanobots decided that the humans were the pollution, so they covered 99% of the world with Fog -- white clouds deadly to humans. The remaining humans lived on mountaintops where the Fog couldn't reach. (It really did not make much sense.)
The story centered around a group of kids, Fog Divers. They made short trips into the Fog to try to find stuff to sell.
The book's humor and setting was jarringly bad to me. Like all the kids knew things from the past, but mixed up. Like the great book Star Wars Trek, where the Borg and the Jedi were at war. And the constellations named Elvis Presley, Greta Garbo, etc... I'm sure that was supposed to be amusing, but it completely didn't work for me.