A decade in the future, 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.
Parasitology
Parasite
Symbiont
Chimera
For more from Mira Grant, check out:
Newsflesh
Feed
Deadline
Blackout
Newsflesh Short Fiction (e-only novellas)
Apocalypse Scenario #683: The Box
Countdown
San Diego 2014: The Last Stand of the California Browncoats
How Green This Land, How Blue This Sea
The Day the Dead Came to Show and Tell
Please Do Not Taunt the Octopus
Mira Grant lives in California, sleeps with a machete under her bed, and highly suggests you do the same. Mira Grant is the pseudonym of Seanan McGuire -- winner of the 2010 John W. Campbell Award for best new writer. Find out more about the author at
www.miragrant.comor follow her on twitter @seananmcguire. 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 dlS"
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