What is it? Parasite , is a science-fiction/horror novel by Mira Grant (the Newsflesh trilogy). What’s it about? SymboGen has pioneered a genetically engineered tapeworm that bolsters the human immune system. Nearly everyone has one. When Sally Mitchell’s gets into a fatal accident (that isn’t an typo, she is brain dead) her […]
Monthly Archives: October 2013
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It might be a bit strange to write a book focusing on a question without an answer but that is precisely what author Lee Billings has done with his new book Five Billion Years of Solitude: The Search for Life Among the Stars. Billings, who spent several years researching the […]
This week’s book is Dan Simmons’ The Abominable. The novel, inspired by a story told to the author during his research for 2007’s The Terror, takes place in 1924 as intrepid explorers have begun the race to scale Mt. Everest has been stymied by the mysterious disappearance of two climbers. […]