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  • Plague Year | [Jeff Carlson]
    Plague Year
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    Plague Year

    • UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 53 mins)
    • By Jeff Carlson
    • Narrated By Richard Ferrone
    Overall
    (61)
    Performance
    (25)
    Story
    (24)

    Debut novelist Jeff Carlson has published his short fiction to much acclaim in Asimov's Strange Horizons and Fantastic Stories. In Plague Year, a nanotechnology virus that was designed to cure cancer instead ravages all of humanity. But the plague has a weakness - it cannot survive above 10,000 feet.

    Terrence says: "Great start to the end of the world"
    "It's catching!!!"
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    Would you listen to Plague Year again? Why?

    I have never listened to an audio book more than once. I don't intend on starting now.


    What other book might you compare Plague Year to and why?

    There is a whole slew of "end of times, apocalypse stories" on Audible, seemingly timed around the rumoured ( and bogus ) Mayan calendar event. A notable number of them seem to involve nano technology. This one certainly is no exception.

    That said, it's not a bad example of this subset of fantasy mysteries.


    What did you like about the performance? What did you dislike?

    Ferrone does a fine read here, bringing many of the characters to life


    Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

    Never happened, never will. Doesn't make it a bad story, just impractical for a single session.


    Any additional comments?

    This is a good to very good example of nano technology base "end of times" storytelling, and is very enjoyable in that context.

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