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ironicallya
plaguefromEarthsaveshumansfrominvadingMartians.Inmostplague
178
Science?ctionandthelifesciences
storieshumansdonotfaresowell.Oneexceptionallywell-doneportrayalof
plaguefromthestandpointofmedicineandcharacteris
DoomsdayBook
byConnieWillis(1992).Timetravellersaccidentallyvisittheperiodofthe
BlackDeathwherethey?ndthateventheirmodernmedicalknowledge
cannotsavepeopleofthefourteenthcenturyfromthescourge.Anotheris
KimStanleyRobinson’sTheYearsofRiceandSalt(2002)whichpostulates
amorevirulentBlackDeathonethatkills
99percentofthepopulation
ofEurope.PerhapsthemostfamousplaguestoryisMichaelCrichton’sThe
AndromedaStrain(1969;?lmed1970)inwhichanextraterrestrialmicrobe
killsnearlyallitsvictimsuntilitmutatesintoaformthatgrowsoutside
humans.Thisscenariowhileimprobablyrapiddoesre?ectthenatural
courseofplagueepidemiologyinthatdeadlypathogenstendtoevolveinto
lessvirulentstrainsthatkeeptheirhostsalivelonger.
InStar?sh(1999)andMaelstrom(2001)PeterWattsdepictsthesudden
releaseofaprimordialmicrobefromitslimitedecologicalnicheinadeepsea
ventduetohumanattemptstoharnessgeothermalenergyandthehorri?c
effectthishasonallotherterrestriallife.InTheSecretofLife(2001)byPaul
McAuleyasimilarlydestruc [link widoczny dla zalogowanych]yilai:
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http://www.feel2.fora.pl/nasz-button,24/on-the-makaloa-mat-londonjack-publishedaamdez,36148.html#46944
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