Spring Fever

Amanda Nigh has finally hit her stride. Working at HocusLocus, she recrafts digital content with viral potential while beta-testing radical new software and enjoying London nightlife. But then she discovers a strange story involving Craig Merleau, an American ice hockey player who talks like a European philosopher, inexplicably propelling his team to victory with his cerebral pronouncements.

As she is drawn into his philosophical and physical orbit, the world is threatened by a subatomic virus that affects computers and humans in bizarre ways. While the global networks run amok and everyone struggles with quantum superposition and gravity quakes, two people remain blissfully untouched: Amanda and Craig.

As Amanda enlists Craig to avert technological and biological Armageddon, she faces a disturbing question: is the end really Amanda Nigh?

Thomas Legendre's previous work includes the novels The Burning and Keeping Time, the performance piece Half Life, and the radio drama Dream Repair. He is an assistant professor at the University of Nottingham.