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For 200 years, a noble Venetian family has suffered from an inherited disease that strikes their members in middle age, stealing their sleep, eating holes in their brains, and ending their lives in a matter of months. In Papua New Guinea, a primitive tribe is nearly obliterated by a sickness whose chief symptom is uncontrollable laughter. Across Europe, millions of sheep rub their fleeces raw before collapsing. What these strange conditions share is their cause: prions.

Livie Christiansen had been sick in bed for too long. The sixty-year-old, single woman was finding it too difficult to get back on her feet. At the suggestion of her sister, she reluctantly calls on Metro Services to deliver a temporary robot body. Livie transfers her consciousness into the metallic body and a new world opens up to her. She soon learns that the comfortable, secure world of 2070 is not what it seems. As Livie heads down the rabbit hole, she discovers that the world is a very sinister place indeed. Jeff Nebeker-Johnson, the author of Darkness: A Slave's Story, delivers his ...