First printing in very good condition with a very good unclipped dust jacket. A very good clean copy.
"Wil McCarthy combines two branches of speculative thinking -- space travel and biotechnology -- to create a chilling and entirely believable future, as Bloom pits humankind against an enemy of its own creation, now rampantly out of control.
In the late 21st century, manmade self-replicating organisms, smaller than the tiniest bacteria, have mutated and swept across the planet, spreading so swiftly that there is no time to do anything but flee and watch the Earth -- and then the whole inner Solar System -- literally consumed and incorporated into the entity known as the Mycosystem.
Gollancz 1999