It's pot-boilerish, a good deal of the science (i.e. why the insects disappear) is bonkers, and the author's reputation is somewhat tarnished these days, but oh

It's pot-boilerish, a good deal of the science (i.e. why the insects disappear) is bonkers, and the author's reputation is somewhat tarnished these days, but oh boy did it make an impression: I read Charles Pellegrino's Dust almost twenty years ago, and this talk of insect die-off still brings the terrifying plot to the front of my mind. Also, for a 1998 novel, it had a pretty decent future scenario of people somewhere around now using all-powerfull 'pads' for their web and mail and video chats and general computing.