Synopsis
The acclaimed author of "Thoughts of God" once again probes the universe and the human experience in this story of a research scientist on the verge of an extraordinary discovery. Certain virus clans are about to make themselves quite at home. To be perfect hosts, human beings will have to be changed.
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About the Author
Michael Kanaly is an author and artist living in Clifton Park, New York. He is the author of Thoughts of God and is working on a new novel.
From School Library Journal
YA-Sort of an X Files meets Star Trek's Borg Collective, this entertaining science-fiction novel poses the question: What if the driving force behind the evolution of man were the impetus of virus to become ONE, a thinking collective being? Entomologist Gary Bracken, working in an obscure facility funded by government grants, learns that a group of viruses cultured in his lab are communicating with one another, much like termites or ants. When he tries to investigate this phenomenon further, a group of government "suits" quickly fire him and discredit his work. Nevertheless, Bracken continues his research to the point of madness, losing his wife and eventually his sanity. Known as biological enigmas, falling outside the normal course of evolution, viruses are neither living nor dead. They cannot reproduce, move, or respire-any of the qualities that define life-until they hijack the nuclear material of a host cell. What if viruses are able to incorporate themselves into the host DNA and follow a plan, billions of years old, to change the host organisms of Earth to a form that can share the eons of memory held by the virus collective? What motivated the flights of genius in humans that brought about the use of the stick as a club, improvised the first bow and arrow, or enabled man to plan a space shuttle? Could it be the viruses? The book ends rather abruptly but will linger in readers' minds. The questions it poses cannot be answered except with, "It's possible."-Carol DeAngelo, Garcia Consulting Inc., EPA Headquarters, Washington, DC
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