![]() This could be expanded to not just one or some infected humans, but to groups, states, and planets secretly or openly ruled by king parasite.įuture will show how much will become real The disgusting perspective is, subjectively, even more fascinating, because people love terrible mutations in combination with mind control, losing personality, and generally having a bad week, as long as they don´t suffer themselves, and the introspections of people infected with maladies with potentially endless combinations of physical and psychological effects are interesting to see and, especially, guess, what that wacky virus might do next. Thereby it would open up so many complex, fascinating plot options that go beyond the known informing the hero about the newest, creepy research, such as implying micro and meta developments, educating, integrating ideology, philosophy of science, etc. The research part is also often highly underrepresented, because it includes hard-sci fi elements, thereby stigmatizing and branding itself as potentially boring, not suspenseful enough for most of the audience who wants her/his average protagonist personal and ideological development mixed with some action soup, except for the ones who are into it too. Redshirts can live, and suffer immensely, tooīut not here, the forgotten, rarely thought, and well executed idea of making the researchers and the victims the main focus of the story, instead of the boring, stereotypical action heroes, opens 2 different, fascinating narrative perspectives. Mostly, in resident evil walking dead style horror genre novels, the people dealing with these problems, especially the annoying hypochondriacs, aren´t the protagonists, but cannon fodder, while the real, clean, and healthy protagonists are cliffhanging around. Science mixed with disgusting terror in a way I haven´t seen before, Sigler is giving a completely fresh and educating look on the tiny aspects of possible biological hazards, alien germ, and infectious tropes. Time to break free from these nasty monster parasites, no matter how entertaining their escalating body horror and mutilation action is for the reader. ![]() The fate of the human race may well depend on the bloody war Perry must wage with his own body, because the parasites want something from him, something that goes beyond mere murder. Soon Perry finds himself acting and thinking strangely, hearing voices. Meanwhile Perry Dawsey – a hulking former football star now resigned to life as a cubicle-bound desk jockey – awakens one morning to find several mysterious welts growing on his body. She discovers that these killers all have one thing in common – they’ve been contaminated by a bioengineered parasite, shaped by a complexity far beyond the limits of known science. With only decomposing corpses for clues, CDC epidemiologist Margaret Montoya races to analyze the science behind this deadly contagion. Working under the government’s shroud of secrecy, CIA operative Dew Phillips crisscrosses the country trying in vain to capture a live victim. ![]() Across America a mysterious disease is turning ordinary people into raving, paranoid murderers who inflict brutal horrors on strangers, themselves, and even their own families.
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