The novel “Greener Than You Think” by Ward Moore was published for the first time in 1947.

Albert Weener answered a job advertisement by Josephine Spencer Francis, a scientist who invented the Metamorphizer, a kind of fertilizer that allows a plant to grow in any condition without the need for other fertilizers. At this stage of development, the Metamorphizer works only with grass species such as devilgrass, scientifically known as Cynodon dactylon.

Weener, who works as a salesman without much success, manages to sell a dose of Metamorphizer with the result that the devilgrass in the garden where it was applied starts growing practically before their eyes. Any attempt to stop the growth fails and the grass starts spreading out of control.

The novel “Teleport” by Joshua T. Calvert was published for the first time in 2022. It’s the first book in the Teleport series.

A drilling operation on the bottom of Lake Maracaibo is thrown into crisis when a completely abnormal storm breaks out. The investigation into the magnetic anomalies leads to the discovery of what is clearly an artifact that is estimated to be around 400,000 years old.

James Hamilton is a negotiator who works in life-or-death situations when he’s picked up by a military team that takes him to a base where the alien artifact was transported. He’s convinced to work as a sort of babysitter for the international group of scientists who are studying the artifact. Everyone’s job gets complicated when the scientists manage to enter an internal chamber of the artifact and discover that it’s a teleportation system.

The novel “Machine Vendetta” by Alastair Reynolds was published for the first time in 2024. It’s part of the Revelation Space series as the third book of the Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, in which it’s the sequel to “Elysium Fire”.

Ingvar Tench is among the prefects of Panoplia, yet for incomprehensible reasons, she finds herself in a habitat different from the one she was headed for. The consequence is that she ends up involved in a civil war and attacked by hostile inhabitants, who manage to kill her. Her colleagues don’t know why she got herself into that situation and this tragedy follows shortly after the apparent suicide attack of a prefect on another habitat.

Tom Dreyfus has a huge amount of experience but struggles to make sense of what appear to be terrorist attacks on various habitats in the Glitter Belt surrounding the planet Yellowstone. The interest of two artificial intelligences at war with each other is a surprise that disturbs him. Discovering that Ingvar Tench had a daughter makes him realize that he didn’t know his colleague very well.