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Contagion: The Shadow War Comes to Earth

Contagion: The Shadow War Comes to Earth

Paperback

Series: The Earthforce Saga, Book 9

Science Fiction

ISBN13: 9798342215718
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Oct 8 2024
Pages: 346
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.77 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
ABOUT CONTAGION:
A Space Opera that sings with choruses of microbiology, virology, and genetic engineering!
One part Star Trek, one part World War Z, and one part War of the Worlds, the Earthforce series has everything-AI, Robotics, Virology, bio-engineering, a cast of mutant hybrids on Earth and battles in space on distant exoplanets, and finally on the Earth itself as Humanity struggles for its survival against Aliens that emerged from the realm of Dark Matter.

Two women from the Survey teams sent to Planet six in the Dharman System are the hope of Humanity as it faces a threat far more dangerous than the Kroth. The Earthforce Outreach Expedition led by Karpov to the Cyonid spiral extension has founded a series of off world colonies at Sirenus, Beowulf, Regia -7, Draconis and finally Dharma-6, when they discover a strange plague has appeared on each of these worlds. Making a rendezvous with Commodore Tico's fleet at the Dharman system, Karpov meets The cast of the Wild Zone Dharman Trilogy, and Lieutenant Ryan explains how the dread Colony Virus was discovered on Dharma-6. It is an alien microbe from another world, the domain of Dark Matter, that has somehow managed to cross over into the normal world of Baryonic Matter. The entities behind this virus are called the Shadows, but what is their real form? Do they inhabit the ships Karpov has been engaging, or are they actually the very same contagion that has spread through the off world colonies-the Colony Virus?

Clues to the true nature of the Shadows pile up when they begin to grow clones of an Earthforce Captain that perished in the Wild Zone of Dharma-6. Infected by the Colony Virus, it now uses the Captain's DNA to clone copies of the man, and use them as a mercenary force that can crew ships the Shadows have built to operate in the realm of Normal Baryonic Matter. If the Shadows are not in those ships, then where are they? Fedorov now becomes convinced the Shadows are actually the Colony Virus, with no real macro-form other than any host the virus infects to mutate and enslave. Now the virus is intent on using Humans as its next host, where it is able to grow a new organ capable of dominating and enslaving the Human brain.

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