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Title: 100% plot, no characterization
Review: If you enjoy books where the virus is the most rounded and interesting character, or think people actually speak dialogue like "We can't target the LPC messenger RNA in the cytoplasm because our current ribozymes do not recognize the mutated form," (I am not making this up; see p. 268), or enjoy books with 5-page glossaries of scientific terms at the end, this book's for you. The human characters are motiveless, flat, dull, boring, etc. and are just moved on- and off-stage by the author to speak this sort of scientific babble. Snickers at religious people and politicians. The plot is kind of interesting but could have been written on a 3 x 5 card. Not recommended unless you go in for this sort of thing; I do enjoy an occasional science fiction story but not this one.
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