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Nano-Noir and Cyber-Godfathers in "The Digital Plague"

If you like nano-noir (and who doesn't?), you won't want to miss Jeff Somers' new novel The Digital Plague. The sequel to his book The Electric Church, it's set in a violent urban future you see through the eyes of antihero Avery, a contract killer-cum-cyber-Godfather. Unfortunately he's got a little nano-plague problem. Now the blog Rescued by Nerds has an interesting interview with Somers up on their site, where they ask a very important question: "Infecting your hero with a nanotech virus designed to murder the world is an interesting plot device. How did you come up with the basic plot?" More »

3:54 PM on Fri May 16 2008
By Annalee Newitz
1,119 views, 10 comments

Latest by medeasin: @Jeff-Minor: After reading Wit's End, I think it would be more efficiently used as toilet paper myself. Digital Plague sounds more like the good stuff though. I'm going to put faith in Annalee's book recommendations one more time. more »