- Paperback
- Publisher: Tor Books (M/M) (Feb 1 1993)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0812500288
- ISBN-13: 978-0812500288
- Product Dimensions: 16.4 x 10.6 x 2.4 cm
- Shipping Weight: 141 g
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From Publishers Weekly
The analytic mind that has served Knight so well as distinguished editor (the Orbit anthologies) and critic (In Search of Wonder) also informs his occasional fiction. In this consideration of the politics of disease, an intelligent alien parasite is multiplying as it moves through the population. Although human hosts feel ill when the parasite leaves their body, they also seem to think with greater clarity thereafter. Dr. Wallace McNulty studies the phenomenon until the country's paranoid President John Arthur Draffy chooses behavioral epidemiologist Harriet Cleaver Owen to quarantine the early hosts for observation. In this thoughtful variation on AIDS panic told as a fast-paced thriller, the patients soon become the subjects of dangerous experiments. Characteristically, Knight plays devil's advocate by changing the focus from the intelligent, apparently benign disease to the unthinking and potentially lethal social and governmental response.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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McNulty's Disease has escaped the Sea Venture and is no epidemic on land. The disease kills only a few of its victims... but no one knows what long-term effects it has on those who survive.For the public's safety, the U.S. government sets up a giant internment camp on the old CV herself, and attempts to find as many survivors as possible to keep safely onboard the ship. Fortunately, Julie Prescott has a most resourceful and clever husband (he used to be a high-priced hired killer) who doesn't want his wife locked up forever. So he sets himself up against the entire government bureaucracy - with remarkable results.
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