num_pages: 214
description: An American educated Mayan sits atop a Temple in Tikal National Park, waiting. A father helplessly watches his family fall into some kind of sleep, or trance. Then he too succumbs, begging a stranger to save them. A PhD scientist awakens, remembering only hours ago she was in her nanotechnology lab, trying to work a solution to make incredibly small robots replicate. But she finds that she is now ill, or a prisoner, or both. The world has change irrevocably, in one swift movement, by the actions of a meglo-maniacal genius. Can they undo what he has done? Should they?
language: English
title: Dusk Before the Dawn
titlecomplete: Dusk Before the Dawn
ratings_count: 15
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award
category: Science Fiction
publisher: Infinity Publishing