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Parasite
Mira Grant
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Description for Parasite
Paperback. From the New York Times bestselling author of Feed comes this year's most CONTAGIOUS thriller - about a miracle cure .. and a nightmare side effect Series: Parasitology. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 136 x 32. Weight in Grams: 368.
A decade in the future, humanity thrives in the absence of sickness and disease.
We owe our good health to a humble parasite - a genetically engineered tapeworm developed by the pioneering SymboGen Corporation. When implanted, the tapeworm protects us from illness, boosts our immune system - even secretes designer drugs. It's been successful beyond the scientists' wildest dreams. Now, years on, almost every human being has a SymboGen tapeworm living within them.
But these parasites are getting restless. They want their own lives . . . and will do anything to get them.
Product Details
Publisher
Orbit
Number of pages
512
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Series
Parasitology
Condition
New
Weight
364g
Number of Pages
512
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780356501925
SKU
V9780356501925
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99-50
About Mira Grant
Mira Grant lives in California, sleeps with a machete under her bed, and highly suggests you do the same. Mira Grant is the open pseudonym of Seanan McGuire, a successful fantasy writer and the winner of the 2010 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.
Reviews for Parasite
An incredible, disturbingly plausible tale of what happens to a world where medical treatments have minds of their own
i09.com
Parasite is believable, disturbing and only the beginning . . . The disturbingly realistic plot, coupled with interspersed events of hostility from the infected, make for a suspense ridden read
SciFiNow
A creepy spine-tingler of a medical thriller
Charles Stross
The most readable, wittily written - and even charming zombie thriller in years
MORNING STAR
Interesting, morally ambiguous characters and some genuinely unexpected plot developments . . lives up to its intriguing premise
THE LIST
Existing in a unique space somewhere between medical thriller, psychological science fiction and body horror, Parasite is a properly chilling read
THE ELOQUENT PAGE
A riveting near-future medical thriller that reads like the genetically-engineered love child of Robin Cook and Michael Crichton
John Joseph Adams
Parasite is a thoroughly enjoyable nightmare
SUNDAY SPORT
i09.com
Parasite is believable, disturbing and only the beginning . . . The disturbingly realistic plot, coupled with interspersed events of hostility from the infected, make for a suspense ridden read
SciFiNow
A creepy spine-tingler of a medical thriller
Charles Stross
The most readable, wittily written - and even charming zombie thriller in years
MORNING STAR
Interesting, morally ambiguous characters and some genuinely unexpected plot developments . . lives up to its intriguing premise
THE LIST
Existing in a unique space somewhere between medical thriller, psychological science fiction and body horror, Parasite is a properly chilling read
THE ELOQUENT PAGE
A riveting near-future medical thriller that reads like the genetically-engineered love child of Robin Cook and Michael Crichton
John Joseph Adams
Parasite is a thoroughly enjoyable nightmare
SUNDAY SPORT