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Parasite
- Narrated by: Christine Lakin
- Length: 16 hrs and 6 mins
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Publisher's Summary
John W. Campbell Award winner, 2010
Short-listed, The Hugo Best Novel, 2012
NPR's Top 100 Killer Thrillers, 2010
Nominated, Romantic Times' Best SF Novel of the Year, 2010
From New York Times best-selling author Mira Grant comes a vision of a decade in the future, where humanity thrives in the absence of sickness and disease.
We owe our good health to a humble parasite—a genetically engineered tapeworm developed by the pioneering SymboGen Corporation. When implanted, the Intestinal Bodyguard worm protects us from illness, boosts our immune system—even secretes designer drugs. It's been successful beyond the scientists' wildest dreams. Now, years on, almost every human being has a SymboGen tapeworm living within them.
But these parasites are getting restless. They want their own lives...and will do anything to get them.
More from Mira Grant:
Parasitology
- Parasite
- Symbiont
- Chimera
Newsflesh
- Feed
- Deadline
- Blackout
- Feedback
- Rise
What the critics say
"A riveting near-future medical thriller that reads like the genetically-engineered love child of Robin Cook and Michael Crichton."—John Joseph Adams
"Readers with strong stomachs will welcome this unusual take on the future."—Kirkus Reviews
"Fans of [the Newsflesh] series will definitely want to check this new book out. But fans of Michael Crichton-style technothrillers will be equally enthralled: as wild as Grant's premise is, the novel is firmly anchored in real-world science and technology."—Booklist
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- Anonymous User
- 2019-12-08
could not finish this audio book.
very restricted work. everything seemed so slow, and removed it. it might be a better fit for longer listening.
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