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Blue Light

by Walter Mosley · 1998

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San Francisco in the mid 1960s is already a crazy place when a cosmic blue light randomly strikes people in its path, quickening their DNA and enhancing their strengths. Under blue light nothing remains the same.

Genre
science fictionscience fictionMore like thisLess of thisfantasyfantasyMore like thisLess of thismysterymysteryMore like thisLess of this
Themes
African AmericanAfrican AmericanMore like thisLess of this
Setting
1990s1990sMore like thisLess of thisCaliforniaCaliforniaMore like thisLess of thisSan FranciscoSan FranciscoMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
long · 400 pages

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