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1) Parasite
Author
Series
Parasitology volume 1
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
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...
2) Symbiont
Author
Series
Parasitology volume 2
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The SymboGen designed tapeworms were created to relieve humanity of disease and sickness. But the implants in the majority of the world's population began attacking their hosts, turning them into a ravenous horde. Now those who do not appear to be afflicted are being gathered for quarantine as panic spreads, but Sal and her companions must discover how the tapeworms are taking over their hosts, what their eventual goal is, and how they can be stopped....
3) Leech
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A surreal and horrifying debut, Leech defies our understanding of identity, heredity, and bodily autonomy. In an isolated chateau, as far north as north goes, the baron's doctor has died. The doctor's replacement has a mystery to solve: discovering how the Institute lost track of one of its many bodies. For hundreds of years the Interprovincial Medical Institute has grown by taking root in young minds and shaping them into doctors, replacing every...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Across America, a mysterious pathogen transforms ordinary people into raging killers, psychopaths driven by a terrifying, alien agenda. The human race fights back, yet after every battle the disease responds, adapts, using sophisticated strategies and brilliant ruses to fool its pursuers. The only possible explanation: the epidemic is driven not by evolution but by some malevolent intelligence.
Standing against this unimaginable threat is a small...
Standing against this unimaginable threat is a small...
5) Chimera
Author
Series
Parasitology volume 3
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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Description
After an epidemic of tapeworms have turned most humans into mindless zombies, Sal and her family must find a way to reconcile both sides of their nature.
Author
Publisher
Monkfish Book Pub. Co
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
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Description
After a professor makes a horrifying discovery at an archeological site, it is learned that, for over 200 years, mind parasites have been lurking in the deep layers of human consciousness and gaining a foothold on the planet. Now, they threaten humanity's extinction.
Author
Series
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"The explosive conclusion to the New York Times bestselling trilogy that began with Infected and Contagious. The alien intelligence that unleashed two horrific assaults on humanity has been destroyed. But before it was brought down in flames, it launched one last payload--a tiny soda-can-sized canister filled with germs engineered to wreak new forms of havoc on the human race. That harmless-looking canister has languished under thousands of feet of...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
It's been a decade since the Delongpre family vanished near Bayou Rabineaux, and still no one can explain the events of that dark and sweltering night. No one except Niquette Delongpre, the survivor who ran away from the mangled stretch of guardrail on Highway 22 where the impossible occurred ... and kept on running. Who left behind her best friends, Ben and Anthem, to save them from her newfound capacity for destruction ... and who alone knows the...
9) Ladyhoppers
Author
Publisher
Outland Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Sometimes to save the world, you've got to punch a few dragons… When the planet is being eaten by interdimensional parasites who literally tear holes in reality, what do you do? If you're Charlie Chase, you dive headfirst into an interdimensional adventure. Charlie knows her calling is a weighty one, but she trusts her mentor’s orders: Travel to another dimension, fix the tear, and get home to do it all over again. But when she gets stuck on...
10) Brainwyrms
Author
Publisher
Nightfire, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"When a transphobic woman bombs Frankie's workplace, she blows up Frankie's life with it. As the media descends like vultures, Frankie tries to cope with the carnage: binge-drinking, sleeping with strangers, pushing away her friends. Then, she meets Vanya. Mysterious, beautiful, terrifying Vanya. The two hit it off immediately, but as their relationship intensifies, so too does Frankie's feeling that Vanya is hiding something from her. When Vanya's...
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