Daybreak Zero

Daybreak Zero
Author(s)	John Barnes
Country	United States
Language	English
Series	Daybreak
Genre(s)	Science fiction novel
Publisher	Ace Hardcover
Publication date	2011
Media type	Print (Hardcover )
Preceded by	Directive 51 (book)
Followed by	The Last President (book)

Daybreak Zero is the title of a science fiction novel by John Barnes. It is the second of three books comprising the Daybreak series.

Plot

In the near future, a variety of groups with diverse aims, but an overlapping desire to end modern technological society (the "Big System") create a nanotech plague ("Daybreak") which both destroys rubber and plastics and eats away any metal conductors carrying electricity. An open question in the book is whether these groups, and their shared motivate, are coordinated by some conscious actor, or whether they are an emergent property / meme that attained a critical mass.

Books by John Barnes

The Century Next Door series	Orbital Resonance (1991) • Kaleidoscope Century (1995) • Candle (2000) • The Sky So Big and Black (2002)

The Thousand Cultures series	A Million Open Doors (1993) • Earth Made of Glass (1999) • The Merchants of Souls (2002) • The Armies of Memory (2006)

The Time Raider series	Wartide (1992) • Battle Cry (1992) • Union Fires (1992) •

The Timeline Wars series	Patton's Spaceship (1997) • Washington's Dirigible (1997) • Caesar's Bicycle (1997) • Timeline Wars (1997) (omnibus)

The Jak Jinnaka series	Duke of Uranium (2002) • A Princess of the Aerie (2003) • In the Hall of the Martian King (2003)

The Daybreak series	Directive 51 (2010) • Daybreak Zero (2011) • The Last President (2012)

Other books	The Man Who Pulled Down the Sky (1987) • Sin of Origin (1988) • Mother of Storms (1995) • Encounter with Tiber (1996) • One For the Morning Glory (1996) • Apocalypses & Apostrophes (1998) • Finity (1999) • The Return (2001) • Gaudeamus (2004) • Payback City (2007) • Tales of the Madman Underground (2009) • Losers in Space (2012)