The Clone Author:Theodore L. Thomas, Kate Wilhelm Nebula Best Novel nominee — One night, beneath the streets of the city, four ingredients found their way into the same collector box in the underground sewer system. There these ingredients - muriatic acid, trisodium phosphate; a bit of meat; and a fleck of silica gel - combined in a warm seething liquid and gave birth to a hideous, destructive f... more »orce: the clone...
A microscopic mass at first, the clone grew rapidly, feeding on the nutrients in the sewer; converting everything it touched into its own pulsing tissue. It spread in all direction, filling the pipes beneath the sleeping metropolis. Then seeking more food, the deadly green tissue reached upward and entered the unsuspecting city...
It moved though houses and stores and spread into the streets absorbing all that lay in its path, Nothing could stio it...« less