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Zodiac is an eco-thriller written by Neal Stephenson, published in 1988. It tells the story of an environmentalist, Sangamon Taylor, uncovering a conspiracy involving industrialist polluters in Boston Harbor. The title refers to the brand of inflatable motor boats Sangamon uses to travel across the Harbor, shortcutting Boston's frequent traffic gridlock. note the novel was written before the completion of the Big Dig, a major civil engineering project that created cross-city tunnels to help alleviate chronic traffic problems.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Sangamon Taylor is known as an Eco-Terrorist by his opponents, and the "Granola James Bond," by the local student papers. He comes across as both, with a dash of Hunter S. Thompson thrown in for good measure. Although he looks down on hippy tree-huggers, he fights against polluters using a variety of legal and illegal methods.Much of the plot concerns Boston's Spectacle Island, which at the time of publication was composed entirely of garbage. In the story, it is frequented by drugged-out and reputedly Satanic groupies of the "two-umlaut" heavy metal music band, Pöyzen Böyzen, who are too intoxicated with angel dust to realize that Sangamon is searching for toxic PCB's dumped on the island, not the drug PCP, which they sell. Hilarity Ensues.Not to be confused with the true crime novel turned film by Robert Graysmith, see Zodiac.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); }) | |
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Granola Girl | |
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Granola Girl: Most of Sangamon's co-workers. Even though they're on his side, he looks down on them. | |
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Green Aesop | |
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Green Aesop: Sangaman is a one-man army against corporate polluters. He establishes himself as quite separate from hippy treehuggers and hates pollution purely out of self-interest. | |
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Establishing Character Moment: On his way to work, Sangamon forces his bicycle into heavy traffic. When a driver yells at him, he unleashes a crushing Cluster F-Bomb. | |
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Anti-Hero | |
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Anti-Hero: Sangaman uses recreational drugs, has a rather caustic personality and operates in a gray area of the law. | |
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Badass Bookworm | |
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Badass Bookworm: Sangaman isn't in great shape or a trained fighter, but he has a host of useful skills and the balls to use them. He plays chicken with cars on his bicycle ride to work, pokes megacorps in the eye as his job, and kills hired goons with his badass driving skills. | |
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Corrupt Corporate Executive: Pleshy in particular, most of Basco in general. | |
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