These books bring viral reading about viruses.
Prescience is a precious element for fiction. This is particularly evident now when more content is being consumed than ever. This is the unusual case for Scottish fictionist Peter May. In 2005, May wrote a new book “set in a London, which was at the epicenter of a global pandemic. It was a city in total lockdown. A virus was claiming thousands of lives. The scenario I described wasn’t drawn from my imagination.
Fast forward 15 years and amid the COVID-19 crisis, a Twitter user asked May if he could write a book about the situation and May realized he already had. That book, “Lockdown: The Crime Thriller That Predicted a World in Quarantine” was released on digital last April 1 and will be released in print and audiobook on April 30.
Perhaps the most famous example of a book where the virus is actually the enemy is the late Michael Crichton’s 1969 novel “The Andromeda Strain,” where scientists in an isolated top-secret base have to fight a virus that actually mutates to defeat its foes. This virus is of extraterrestrial origin, having been recovered from a satellite that had fallen to Earth.
In a chilling chapter, Preston warns about the viruses still to come and how we remain unprepared for them. “A question has to be asked: If a [biohazard] level 4 emerging virus spread to a million people in North America,” he said.
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