Friday, June 06, 2014

Eleven fictional maladies that will keep you up at night

At The Barnes & Noble Book Blog Joel Cunningham tagged 11 fictional maladies that will keep you up at night, including:
The Andromeda Strain (The Andromeda Strain, by Michael Crichton)

As alien viruses go, the Andromeda Strain really sets a high bar. Shortly after it touches down on Earth via a crashed military satellite, it infects and kills the first humans it encounters, then rapidly mutates to infect everything else—from humans (wiping out an entire town), to the plastic and metal barriers constructed to contain it. And you thought dinosaurs that could open doors were bad.
Read about another entry on the list.

--Marshal Zeringue