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The Best (and First?) Sci-Fi Novel Ever Set in a Wastewater Treatment Plant
An "ancient evil" has awoken in the Bay Area and is making life hell for sewage workers, according to a new novel by a real-life sewage professional.
Are you ready to read the world's finest plot summary – OK, maybe only plot summary – for a horror story set in a wastewater-treatment plant? Brace yourselves:
These golden words were forged in the fevered mind of Dodge Winston, a wastewater-plant operator in the San Francisco Bay Area who recently self-published a sci-fi thriller called The Wastewater Plant – tagline, “Where no one cares when you scream.” If you've never run into a Dodge Winston on the street, that's because it's a nom de plume. The author would prefer his coworkers not get too curious about how he developed his characters (again, "who can barely tolerate one another").