The Third Pandemic
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The Third Pandemic is a hard science fiction
novel by Pierre Ouellette
. It is more specifically a medical thriller
with perspectives from both humans living with a virulent disease and from the virus
's point of view.
Hard science fiction
Hard science fiction is a category of science fiction characterized by an emphasis on scientific or technical detail, or on scientific accuracy, or on both. The term was first used in print in 1957 by P. Schuyler Miller in a review of John W. Campbell, Jr.'s Islands of Space in Astounding Science...
novel by Pierre Ouellette
Pierre Ouellette
Pierre Ouellette is a science fiction author. He lives in Portland, Oregon. He wrote the science fiction thrillers The Deus Machine and The Third Pandemic . Writing under the name of Pierre Davis, his third novel A Breed Apart was published in 2009 by Bantam-Dell...
. It is more specifically a medical thriller
Medical thriller
A medical thriller is a type of thriller with major elements regarding medicine, medical practice or surgery. Examples of such works are The Third Pandemic by Pierre Ouellette, Safari by Ahmed Khaled Towfik, works by Robin Cook, and the 2011 film Contagion....
with perspectives from both humans living with a virulent disease and from the virus
Virus
A virus is a small infectious agent that can replicate only inside the living cells of organisms. Viruses infect all types of organisms, from animals and plants to bacteria and archaea...
's point of view.