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Parasite

By: Mira Grant
Narrated by: Christine Lakin
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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
©2013 Mira Grant (P)2013 Hachette Audio Adventure Hard Science Fiction Horror Science Fiction Scary Fiction

Critic Reviews

"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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I can't believe this gets good reviews..

I can't believe this book gets good reviews. I've enjoyed Mira Grants work before, but this book is slow, predictable, repetitive and unbelievable. That's not even mentioning the boring 2- dimensional characters and convenient plot writing. I dragged myself through this hoping it would get better. It did not.

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