Ich kann mir dieses Buch gut als 50er Jahre B-Movie vorstellen. Als Buch ist das alles doch arg flach und trashig.... ( )

It's a little bit "body snatchers" and a little bit "tommyknockers" and I did some big eye-rolling in places, but still a quick fun read.

Very tattered paperback, picked up from the Friends of the Library gimme shelves. I'll send it back so someone else can laugh and roll their eyes over it. ( )

After a night of shooting stars, strange small impermeable metal discs are found scattered about. If you pick one up, you receive a small sting. This is followed later by mild flu-like symptoms (unless you have a pre-existing medical condition and then you die). When you recover, you seem to be a better version of yourself – interested in fixing the environment, ending wars, and making sure everyone around you also gets stung by a disc.

The small discs are alien spacecraft carrying a virus like particle that activates some of the ‘non-coding’ DNA in the genome of many living organisms. Implanted millions of years ago, this is the first time there is a life form evolved enough to interest the aliens, which are not just determined to take over individuals’ bodies but the whole of earth by opening an interdimensional door.

OK, it’s a bit corny, and being written in 1997, also a bit dated. But I enjoyed it. It’s a decent pandemic read about a pandemic caused not by rogue laboratories but by far advanced life forms. And Yay! Science saves the day …. ( )

Excellent read, but the ending is a little too contrived. Looks like it's ready for a sequel. ( )

I found this book on the shelf at the cottage we were renting while on vacation in St. John and thought it might be a good beach read. It was, sort of, in a dopey way. Unlike most of Cook’s medical mysteries, this one includes a science fiction twist: extraterrestrial aliens who appear on earth embedded in black disks with sharp points protruding from them. Whenever someone pricks their finger on one of the points, he or she is infected with a virus that causes them to become part of a collective consciousness with the alien-lifeforms. The first person to be infected, Beau Stark, becomes the leader of the collective consciousness, and it’s up to his girlfriend, Cassy, to save him—and humanity. As I say, dopey, but not a terrible beach read. ( )