Description
When a mysterious outbreak begins to spread, it doesn’t just threaten lives—it reshapes minds, turning ordinary people into sudden geniuses while leaving others to unravel. As the scientific and medical response races to understand the cause, a tense web of discovery forms around the people closest to the first cases, forcing difficult choices about what progress costs. Blending suspense with big questions about human potential, the story explores themes of intelligence as both gift and burden, the ethics of experimentation, and how fear can distort truth. With a fast-moving, idea-driven style, this novel asks whether the next breakthrough will save humanity—or prove that brilliance can be its own kind of plague.
Available Editions
paperback
Start Publishing LLC
Published Jan 1, 2017
400 pages
ISBN: 9781633883444
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Community Reviews(1)
dnf at 30%. at around 20% i noticed i was skim reading. the book's premise is supposed to be about some super scifi fungus, but the infected brother takes a backseat to the NSA agent brother. and i mean BACKSEAT; like paul is in the trunk of a pacifica mini-van while neil goes 20mph in a 70. neil is a shallow, self-entitled dumbass who spends all of his time either complimenting his ingenuity, comparing himself to paul who is now smarter than him due to fungus, or doubting the intelligence of female NSA collaborators more than 10 years his senior. i wanted to care, i wanted to hear about the fungus. but this is just about neil getting to play centerfold in everyone else's lives.
Details
First Published
2017
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Genius Plague by David Walton.