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Avery Cates is a very rich man. He's probably the richest criminal in New York City. But right now, Avery Cates is pissed. Because everyone around him has just started to die - in a particularly gruesome way. With every moment bringing the human race closer to extinction, Cates finds himself in the role of both executioner and savior of the entire world.
A refreshing approach to the dominance of technology in our contemporary lives, The Digital Pandemic, translated from Portuguese, poses fundamental questions about love, fear, connectedness, proximity, imagination and consciousness. Arguing that the pandemic has ushered in a civilizational digital shock, João Pedro Cachopo charts new channels of relatedness and communication between people through digital technologies for the foreseeable future. The transformation of human experience that began in 2020 creates a break in our sociality that Cachopo pinpoints through key themes of love, travel, study, community and art. In contrast to the growing philosophical literature on the pandemic, this bold theoretical work does not prophesy the fall of capitalism or the end of personal freedom and relationships. Instead, this book carefully investigates the advanced technology that is increasingly inextricable from our lives, using an alternative approach that avoids pessimism, while remaining alert to the risks and threats of the digital age. It opens up the possibility of fostering global solidarity and consciousness beyond physical borders in the 21st century.
Being sick is horrible. But it used to be worse. Inside this book, you'll see evidence of the plagues of the past—rotting skin, dissolving lungs, and sinister swelling all over the body. Diseases like the Black Death wiped out whole towns and villages. Tuberculosis consumed young people like a bloodsucking vampire. And Smallpox left its victims scarred for life—if they survived. At the time, no one knew where these killer diseases came from or how to treat them. But eventually doctors discovered how these diseases and others were spread. Being sick isn't quite as sickening as it was in the past!
In the near future, the only thing growing faster than the criminal population is the Electric Church, a new religion founded by a mysterious man named Dennis Squalor. The Church preaches that life is too brief to contemplate the mysteries of the universe: eternity is required. In order to achieve this, the converted become Monks -- cyborgs with human brains, enhanced robotic bodies, and virtually unlimited life spans. Enter Avery Cates, a dangerous criminal known as the best killer-for-hire around. The authorities have a special mission in mind for Cates: assassinate Dennis Squalor. But for Cates, the assignment will be the most dangerous job he's ever undertaken -- and it may well be his last. "Some debuts simply set new bars in a genre. Jeff Somers' The Electric Church is one such book, a gritty noir story that challenges and surprises with every page. A novel that is equal parts Raymond Chandler and William Gibson. A major new talent has arrived -- and it's about time!" -- James Rollins, New York Times bestselling author
A MIND IS A TERRIBLE THING TO LOSE...Imagine a world in which nearly everyone has lost their ability to think. That's exactly the world Franklin Strock wakes up into one morning. His wife and his neighbors .... and seemingly everyone else, appears afflicted by a total inability to remember who they are and worse, how to do even the simplest things. He soon realizes that something has erased the minds of most everyone except he and a small handful of others. The mind plague struck America just before dawn eastern standard time when most everyone across the country was asleep. When those afflicted woke up, they simply laid in bed, staring up at the ceiling, unable to recall what to do next, how to get out of bed, shower, dress, have breakfast, go to work or school. The hours and days past and still they laid in bed until eventually, they starved to death. Weeks and months later, millions upon millions of withered skeletons still laid in their beds. Across the world, when the plague struck, cars went off the road, jet planes fell from the sky, people stood in their tracks, conversations ceased. And like their American counterparts, everyone who survived the initial mayhem, eventually starved to death and the streets of the great cities of the world were soon littered with corpses. In less than a month, billions died. And humanity seemed doomed. But like a handful of others, Franklin Strock escaped the ravages of the plague. With Ellie, his wife, who'd lost her mind and become a blank, he retreated to an uncle's cabin deep in the woods. In the months that followed, he obtained all the food and supplies he needed to survive from the abandoned homes and stores in the nearby lifeless villages, towns and cities, while trying to awaken Ellie's mind and bring back the woman she was before the plague. And then, nine months after the plague struck down humanity, while napping in an old recliner on the front porch of the cabin one warm, lazy afternoon in mid-June, Strock was awakened by the roar of a motorcycle approaching on a state highway a quarter mile down from the cabin. As the bike rounded a curve on the highway in front of the cabin, it hit something on the road and careened off the road. Little did Strock realize that by going down to help the biker, he'd be introduced to the world that arose after the Mind Plague struck. Scarsella's eight crime and speculative fiction novels have been widely praised by reviewers and readers alike. Join him in this dystopian fable in which battling forces vie for the minds and hearts of their fellow man who's minds have gone blank.
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Looming Tower, and the pandemic novel The End of October: an unprecedented, momentous account of Covid-19—its origins, its wide-ranging repercussions, and the ongoing global fight to contain it "A book of panoramic breadth ... managing to surprise us about even those episodes we … thought we knew well … [With] lively exchanges about spike proteins and nonpharmaceutical interventions and disease waves, Wright’s storytelling dexterity makes all this come alive.” —The New York Times Book Review From the fateful first moments of the outbreak in China to the storming of the U.S. Capitol to the extraordinary vaccine rollout, Lawrence Wright’s The Plague Year tells the story of Covid-19 in authoritative, galvanizing detail and with the full drama of events on both a global and intimate scale, illuminating the medical, economic, political, and social ramifications of the pandemic. Wright takes us inside the CDC, where a first round of faulty test kits lost America precious time . . . inside the halls of the White House, where Deputy National Security Adviser Matthew Pottinger’s early alarm about the virus was met with confounding and drastically costly skepticism . . . into a Covid ward in a Charlottesville hospital, with an idealistic young woman doctor from the town of Little Africa, South Carolina . . . into the precincts of prediction specialists at Goldman Sachs . . . into Broadway’s darkened theaters and Austin’s struggling music venues . . . inside the human body, diving deep into the science of how the virus and vaccines function—with an eye-opening detour into the history of vaccination and of the modern anti-vaccination movement. And in this full accounting, Wright makes clear that the medical professionals around the country who’ve risked their lives to fight the virus reveal and embody an America in all its vulnerability, courage, and potential. In turns steely-eyed, sympathetic, infuriated, unexpectedly comical, and always precise, Lawrence Wright is a formidable guide, slicing through the dense fog of misinformation to give us a 360-degree portrait of the catastrophe we thought we knew.
Geneticist Kate Warner and counter-terrorism agent David Vale are working desperately against the clock to prevent a pandemic 70,000 years in the making. If this plague takes hold, it could change humanity forever...
"I can't wait for the movie." --Sacramento News & Review After surviving the Archos plague and the wars that followed, Ruth Goldman and Cam Najarro find peace in a village hidden in the Rockies, but the race for weaponized nanotech has accelerated. America is hit by new nano plague. Aided by a small group of friends and rivals, Ruth and Cam must discover the source of the contagion... an old enemy they believed dead...
COVID-19 and Public Policy in the Digital Age explores how states and societies have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic and their long-term implications for public policy and the rule of law globally. It examines the extent to which existing methods of protecting public safety and national security measure up in a time of crisis. The volume also examines how these ideas themselves have undergone transformation in the context of the global crisis. This book: Explores the intersection of public policy, individual rights, and technology; Analyzes the role of science in determining political choices; Reconsiders our understanding of security studies on a global scale arising out of antisocial behaviour, panic buying, and stockpiling of food and (in the United States) arms; Probes the role of fake news and social media in crisis situations; and Provides a critical analysis of the notion of global surveillance in relation to the pandemic. A timely, prescient volume on the many ramifications of the pandemic, this book will be essential reading for professionals, scholars, researchers, and students of public policy, especially practitioners working in the fields of technology and society, security studies, law, media studies, and public health.