Fiction books about virus

Learn about how viruses are named, how their genes work, how they replicate themselves, how they interact with hosts, and how they travel from host to host. From images of the viruses to where they were discovered to how your immune system can counteract them, this guide is as comprehensive as it gets. He also worked for the CDC with a focus on global health and emerging infectious diseases, so he knows a thing or two about viruses. By night, he hides and prays for the sun to rise.

I Am Legend is a highly suspenseful, quick read about post-apocalyptic lone survival, and a classic among plague fiction. August , New York. The deadly Spanish influenza is just beginning to poison Manhattan.

But young socialite Allene, whose friends and relatives begin to pass away one by one, refuses to believe that the flu is really to blame. Instead, she thinks they were poisoned. Desperate for answers, along with her friends, Jasper and Birdie, Allene begins to investigate. As her loved ones fall sick one after another, alliances shift, lives become entangled, and the trio becomes increasingly suspicious — of each other.

A Beautiful Poison is a mystery interwoven with turns and twists, set in a world rippled by one of the biggest pandemics of all time. Months pass, and Prospero comes up with a brilliant new idea — to throw a spectacular masquerade ball in a suite of seven rooms, each of a different color. But when the clock strikes midnight, the guests make a horrific discovery.

A classic among horror short stories, The Masque of the Red Death offers a unique take on plague fiction. An uncontrollable epidemic, the Red Death, begins its rampage. But those who are lucky enough to survive are facing an entirely different struggle: a society once polite and well-mannered had turned into packs of animal-like, brute predators. Sixty years have passed, and Professor Smith struggles to recount the fall of civilization to his three grandchildren, realizing that they have now become uncouth savages who will never know the beauty of civilization.

In a future ravaged by a deadly plague, Lionel Verney is the last human standing. As he sets off to a lone trip through Europe and Africa, he reflects on his past as a close friend of the son of the last King of England, and the world soon struck by immeasurable tragedy. In this deeply personal novel, Mary Shelley cleverly incorporates parallels to her own life story, grieving the death of her own husband, children, and closest friends, which she transforms into the complete extinction of the human species.

As the narrator traces the devastating progress of the pandemic, we see a landscape transformed with smells and suffering, and its citizens desperately trying to contain the disease despite knowing nothing of what caused it. And while Defoe was only five years old at the time of the outbreak, the book is most probably based on the journals of his uncle, Henry, making it a part-fictional, part diary-entry-like read.

Detailed, factual, and thought-provoking, A Journal of the Plague Year describes the reality of the bubonic plague unlike any other. The human race has completely lost the ability to reproduce. The last generation to be born is now adult and awaiting extinction. And Theo, an Oxford historian and cousin of the Warden of England, is slowly dying too.

But when he meets the bright and attractive Julian and her band of unlikely revolutionaries, he finds himself slowly regaining the desire to live. With P. Everyone, except for an old man and a baby, who strangely remain unaffected by the deadly wave. The U. They soon arrive to a blood-curdling conclusion: the cause of the deaths was a mysterious, highly contagious mutant virus from space. As they work together to come up with a vaccine, a gripping race against time begins.

Off the coast of Antarctica, a research group discovers a strange ancient structure buried deep within an iceberg. At the same moment, in Jakarta, Indonesia, brilliant geneticist Kate Warner has just come up with a breakthrough treatment for autism. Or so she thinks. What Kate found is far more deadly — not just for her, but for the entire human race. Her work could unleash the next stage of human evolution. And it holds the key to unlocking the mysterious structure off the coast of Antarctica.

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Living under quarantine, students, teachers, and their families must reckon with the rapidly shifting environment, as the diseased dream intensely around them. In Connie Willis' much-lauded Doomsday Book , a 21st-century time traveler prepares for a mission in the plague-ridden 14th century, only to have things go horribly awry. Knocked unconscious upon her arrival, Kivrin loses track of her entry point, which is to be the site of her exit when the time comes to leave.

As she struggles to correct the error, a deadly influenza outbreak threatens all of Oxford's 21st-century operations, including those of its time-traveling history department.

Albert Camus' classic novel follows a plague that sweeps the French Algerian city of Oran. Focused on the townspeople — from doctors to children to fugitives — The Plague is a social commentary on the human condition in the midst of an epidemic. After a massive viral outbreak, one company brings the dead back to life by preserving their consciousnesses inside new bodies.

Those who cannot pay for the service become servants to clients who rent them, which is exactly where The Companions ' protagonist, year-old Lilac, finds herself at the novel's opening. But Lilac is determined to get out of her contract, come hell or high water, because she's got a murder to solve — her own.

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