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Contagion: A Positronic Book
Hardcover
Science FictionClassic Fiction
ISBN13: 9781515421504
Publisher: Positronic Publishing
Published: Apr 3 2018
Pages: 42
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.25 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A strange outbreak becomes more than a medical crisis when science, fear, and human behavior collide under pressure. In Contagion, Katherine MacLean brings her clear, intelligent science-fiction approach to a premise built around danger spreading through a group, a system, or an environment that no longer behaves safely. The threat is biological, social, and psychological at once: what matters is not only what the contagion is, but how people respond when uncertainty begins to infect judgment.
MacLean was one of classic science fiction's sharpest writers of scientific and social speculation, especially when her stories turned on psychology, biology, communication, perception, and the fragile balance between reason and panic. Contagion fits that strength, using the tension of an outbreak to examine survival, diagnosis, trust, and the human need to understand a crisis before it overwhelms the people trapped inside it.
For readers of vintage science fiction, medical SF, psychological speculation, and mid-century magazine science fiction, Contagion offers a strong example of MacLean's ability to turn a scientific idea into a human problem. It belongs naturally in the Positronic line as classic SF driven not just by threat and discovery, but by intelligence, pressure, and the dangerous speed with which fear can spread.
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