2011 Book 1: Mother of Storms by John Barnes

It is characteristic of information that it can be stolen an all but unlimited number of times. When it became clear that one particular senior meteorologist at NOAA might be sitting at the focal point, that clarity -- that little note that "this is what probably matters" -- became information in and of itself, and was worth stealing.  A dozen monitoring programs stole it at once, and dozens more stole from each of them, and from the places they passed it on to, until by now practically everyone who matters knows that Diogenes Callare matters.  One of the few who doesn't know is Diogenes Callare.

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