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Bioterror
SIX YEARS AGO – NKUDBKAH, IRAQ
A small Republican Guard mechanized infantry unit and the isolated village near it is chosen by the CIA for a dreadful purpose: to test the potential of Project BioGenesis—a genetically modified organism designed to be a viable method of biological warfare. It was an unmitigated failure. When the team sent in for reconnaissance is attacked and eventually infected by the weaponized parasites, only one plan exists for such a result—utter annihilation of all infected organisms under a blanket of napalm and phosphorus, burning it with a cleansing fire
…or so they thought.
NOW – CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
Down on her luck, unemployed journalist Shawna Geddes witnesses the abduction of a homeless man by several figures in a white van. Instinctually, she follows and stumbles into one of the most horrific secrets in the history of the planet. Joined by her unscrupulous colleague Harry Niles, they find a string of deaths around Chicago all connected by one wriggling, mucus-covered tendril—an infestation spreading across the planet like wildfire—and they are thoroughly tangled in its coils. Unless something is done soon, it will be much too late to stop the horror of this vermicular monstrosity. Soon, all will fall under the swarming mass of…
BIOTERROR
A small Republican Guard mechanized infantry unit and the isolated village near it is chosen by the CIA for a dreadful purpose: to test the potential of Project BioGenesis—a genetically modified organism designed to be a viable method of biological warfare. It was an unmitigated failure. When the team sent in for reconnaissance is attacked and eventually infected by the weaponized parasites, only one plan exists for such a result—utter annihilation of all infected organisms under a blanket of napalm and phosphorus, burning it with a cleansing fire
…or so they thought.
NOW – CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
Down on her luck, unemployed journalist Shawna Geddes witnesses the abduction of a homeless man by several figures in a white van. Instinctually, she follows and stumbles into one of the most horrific secrets in the history of the planet. Joined by her unscrupulous colleague Harry Niles, they find a string of deaths around Chicago all connected by one wriggling, mucus-covered tendril—an infestation spreading across the planet like wildfire—and they are thoroughly tangled in its coils. Unless something is done soon, it will be much too late to stop the horror of this vermicular monstrosity. Soon, all will fall under the swarming mass of…
BIOTERROR
- GenresHorror
521 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 21, 2021
21 people are currently reading
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About the author
Tim Curran
152 books593 followersTim Curran lives in Michigan and is the author of the novels Skin Medicine, Hive, Dead Sea, Resurrection, The Devil Next Door, and Biohazard, as well as the novella The Corpse King. His short stories have appeared in such magazines as City Slab, Flesh&Blood, Book of Dark Wisdom, and Inhuman, and anthologies such as Shivers IV, High Seas Cthulhu, and Vile Things.
For DarkFuse and its imprints, he has written the bestselling The Underdwelling, the Readers Choice-Nominated novella Fear Me, Puppet Graveyard as well as Long Black Coffin.
Find him on the web at: www.corpseking.com.
For DarkFuse and its imprints, he has written the bestselling The Underdwelling, the Readers Choice-Nominated novella Fear Me, Puppet Graveyard as well as Long Black Coffin.
Find him on the web at: www.corpseking.com.
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April 20, 2021
A new Tim Curran book is always a reason to celebrate, but a 521 page new book from Tim Curran, now us mere mortals are just not worthy.
And he needed every one of those 521 pages to tell the story too. Because this one is big, like really big. Like global scale big and it shows how much Curran has grown as an author and storyteller by his balancing multiple storylines with probably the biggest cast of characters he's ever worked with and it departs kinds from his other stuff as it's more of a thriller than actual horror, although there are definitely horror elements. Reading about a pandemic during an actual pandemic while living in maybe the stupidest state (Florida) in America is pretty terrifying and I'm glad it was mutating killer worms instead of an actual virus because well then that might have been too much.
This is an everything and the kitchen sink book and it packs in a lot of gore with the story, yo there are some genuine barf-o-rama moments. And as with all of Tim Curran's work you will see, smell, taste, and feel everything in amazing detail and with ferocious originality.
I mean it's Tim Curran, it don't get any better then this!
And he needed every one of those 521 pages to tell the story too. Because this one is big, like really big. Like global scale big and it shows how much Curran has grown as an author and storyteller by his balancing multiple storylines with probably the biggest cast of characters he's ever worked with and it departs kinds from his other stuff as it's more of a thriller than actual horror, although there are definitely horror elements. Reading about a pandemic during an actual pandemic while living in maybe the stupidest state (Florida) in America is pretty terrifying and I'm glad it was mutating killer worms instead of an actual virus because well then that might have been too much.
This is an everything and the kitchen sink book and it packs in a lot of gore with the story, yo there are some genuine barf-o-rama moments. And as with all of Tim Curran's work you will see, smell, taste, and feel everything in amazing detail and with ferocious originality.
I mean it's Tim Curran, it don't get any better then this!
December 2, 2021
Vor ungefähr sechs Jahren passierte etwas Schreckliches im Irak. Ein Projekt namens BioGenesis – ein genetisch modifizierter Organismus – wird entworfen und getestet. Der Test des Projekts war jedoch ein kompletter Reinfall, da ein Team vor Ort von dem Organismus angegriffen und infiziert wird. Aus diesem Grund wurde alles und jeder im Anschluss verbrannt. Nun befinden wir uns in der Gegenwart in Chicago. Eine Journalistin namens Shawna für Zeugin eine Entführung eines Obdachlosen. Sie stellt Nachforschungen auf und stößt dabei auf diesen Organismus, welcher sich nach und nach immer mehr verbreitet. Lässt sich die Verbreitung noch stoppen?
Das knapp 600-seitige Buch hat in meinen Augen viel zu bieten. Es ist eine gelungene Mischung aus Spannungsroman, Horror sowie Politik-Thriller. Besonders den politischen Teil hätte ich in dieser Art nicht erwartet.
In das Buch bin ich jedoch mit leichten Problemen eingestiegen, da ich erstmal mit den ganzen Perspektiven und Orts- sowie Zeitwechsel klarkommen musste. Ehrlicherweise habe ich mindestens um die 200 Seiten gebraucht, um zurecht zu kommen und so merkte ich auch nach dem Beenden des Buches, dass ich keine eindeutige Transparenz erhalten habe. Was ich auch schade fand, war, dass ich mich nicht so richtig beim Lesen an einer Person orientieren konnte. Es waren so viele Figuren vorhanden, wodurch man leicht den Überblick verlieren konnte. Dennoch war die Geschichte sehr spannend. Ich fand den Verlauf der Handlung sehr interessant entworfen sowie sorgten die einzelnen Horror-Elemente für den nötigen Nervenkitzel. An manchen Stellen habe ich sogar hinsichtlich der Brutalität der Beschreibungen mich gewundert und musste ab und zu mal pausieren. Es treten grandiose Wendungen auf, die einen Hauch an Hollywood-Flair aufweisen. Deswegen finde ich das Buch von der Plotgestaltung auch große Klasse. Würde man noch so einen klaren Protagoniste/in sowie nicht ein ständiges „Hin und Her“ haben, würde das Buch ein großes Highlight sein. So empfand ich das Buch eher als eine mühsame aber spannende Lektüre, die für den nötigen Nervenkitzel sorgen kann.
Fazit: Mit „Bioterror“ entwirft der Autor einen sehr interessanten Roman, in welchem es um eine mächtige biologische Waffe geht, welche die Welt zerstören kann. Wie erwähnt, liegt ein spannender Plot vor, welcher jedoch unter einem „Hin und Her“ leidet. Ich bewerte das Buch mit 3,5 Sternen, Tendenz nach unten.
Das knapp 600-seitige Buch hat in meinen Augen viel zu bieten. Es ist eine gelungene Mischung aus Spannungsroman, Horror sowie Politik-Thriller. Besonders den politischen Teil hätte ich in dieser Art nicht erwartet.
In das Buch bin ich jedoch mit leichten Problemen eingestiegen, da ich erstmal mit den ganzen Perspektiven und Orts- sowie Zeitwechsel klarkommen musste. Ehrlicherweise habe ich mindestens um die 200 Seiten gebraucht, um zurecht zu kommen und so merkte ich auch nach dem Beenden des Buches, dass ich keine eindeutige Transparenz erhalten habe. Was ich auch schade fand, war, dass ich mich nicht so richtig beim Lesen an einer Person orientieren konnte. Es waren so viele Figuren vorhanden, wodurch man leicht den Überblick verlieren konnte. Dennoch war die Geschichte sehr spannend. Ich fand den Verlauf der Handlung sehr interessant entworfen sowie sorgten die einzelnen Horror-Elemente für den nötigen Nervenkitzel. An manchen Stellen habe ich sogar hinsichtlich der Brutalität der Beschreibungen mich gewundert und musste ab und zu mal pausieren. Es treten grandiose Wendungen auf, die einen Hauch an Hollywood-Flair aufweisen. Deswegen finde ich das Buch von der Plotgestaltung auch große Klasse. Würde man noch so einen klaren Protagoniste/in sowie nicht ein ständiges „Hin und Her“ haben, würde das Buch ein großes Highlight sein. So empfand ich das Buch eher als eine mühsame aber spannende Lektüre, die für den nötigen Nervenkitzel sorgen kann.
Fazit: Mit „Bioterror“ entwirft der Autor einen sehr interessanten Roman, in welchem es um eine mächtige biologische Waffe geht, welche die Welt zerstören kann. Wie erwähnt, liegt ein spannender Plot vor, welcher jedoch unter einem „Hin und Her“ leidet. Ich bewerte das Buch mit 3,5 Sternen, Tendenz nach unten.
April 6, 2021
Holy hell! 👁👁 Took awhile to get through this one but it was worth the ride!
August 27, 2022
An immensely squicky novel that reads like Matthew J. Costello's Wurm or Midsummer on acid. Not Tim Curran's best by any measure, but definitely his most ambitious to date. Good, gooey stuff.
(I read this in paperback, please ignore the kindle labeling)
(I read this in paperback, please ignore the kindle labeling)
dnf
April 5, 2021Really wanted to like this, and there were parts I genuinely enjoyed (basically every time someone vomited up/exploded with a worm) but basically all the characters are assholes, and not even of the "I can gleefully hate them" variety, but of the "Oh joy. More corrupt politicians" style, or shitty journalistic types so I checked out at 25%.
March 12, 2022
Disappointing. Curran has so much potential as a writer, but some things stick out too much to ignore.
Every other chapter is “random character totally unrelated to the plot gets infected by the worm.”
The entire nation is getting infected and society is collapsing but somehow the Old Man is really concerned that some rando journalist saw someone abduct one single person in a suspicious way, better pull out all the stops.
And then don’t bother to kill that rando journalist because they’re not worth the resources. But do kill some randomly related person- like a landlord- in order to “frame” them. What?
Then have a shrewd and tough president bring over the guy he suspects of assassinating his own VP and candidate… just to spill everything he knows, make empty threats and then *drink the wine the guy brought* because neither he, his team, or anyone in the Secret Service thought it might be poisoned.
Even the characters that do “matter” to the plot, don’t. Of the many plot strands brought up- none of them lead anywhere.
Books like Game of Thrones “subvert our expectation” because “anyone can die!” And it adds to the tension because we can’t predict what will happen. But with Curran, it’s “every character fails and dies horribly-“ there’s no shock and no tension there because you already know what’s going to happen. It’s all utterly predictable.
I still like some Curran books like Biohazard, Blackout and Devil Next Door. I realize now what these have in common is that they’re all post-apocalyptic stories that don’t really have any “story” except the protagonist trying to survive moment to moment- which makes sense for that kind of setting. And they work really well at being just that.
Unfortunately, Curran can’t write a “plot” to save his life and this will be the last time I make the mistake of trying to figure out if he’s learned how
Every other chapter is “random character totally unrelated to the plot gets infected by the worm.”
The entire nation is getting infected and society is collapsing but somehow the Old Man is really concerned that some rando journalist saw someone abduct one single person in a suspicious way, better pull out all the stops.
And then don’t bother to kill that rando journalist because they’re not worth the resources. But do kill some randomly related person- like a landlord- in order to “frame” them. What?
Then have a shrewd and tough president bring over the guy he suspects of assassinating his own VP and candidate… just to spill everything he knows, make empty threats and then *drink the wine the guy brought* because neither he, his team, or anyone in the Secret Service thought it might be poisoned.
Even the characters that do “matter” to the plot, don’t. Of the many plot strands brought up- none of them lead anywhere.
Books like Game of Thrones “subvert our expectation” because “anyone can die!” And it adds to the tension because we can’t predict what will happen. But with Curran, it’s “every character fails and dies horribly-“ there’s no shock and no tension there because you already know what’s going to happen. It’s all utterly predictable.
I still like some Curran books like Biohazard, Blackout and Devil Next Door. I realize now what these have in common is that they’re all post-apocalyptic stories that don’t really have any “story” except the protagonist trying to survive moment to moment- which makes sense for that kind of setting. And they work really well at being just that.
Unfortunately, Curran can’t write a “plot” to save his life and this will be the last time I make the mistake of trying to figure out if he’s learned how
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June 14, 2025
A apocalyptic world with a apocalyptic worm. You heard right! I said worm. Brian Keene also wrote a story about an apocalyptic worm. But I feel this story is better.
A government agency called S5 created a bioworm that multiplies quickly so quickly the worm takes over in about 1 week time. No one is safe...including the President of the United States.
A government agency called S5 created a bioworm that multiplies quickly so quickly the worm takes over in about 1 week time. No one is safe...including the President of the United States.
April 13, 2021
Gory!
You can always count on him to bring the gore! A little overkill on the conspiracy aspect and just seemed kind of repetitive.
You can always count on him to bring the gore! A little overkill on the conspiracy aspect and just seemed kind of repetitive.
May 12, 2021
A TALE OF DECEIT AND TREACHERY IT IS..
Hello, this is a good story. Very well written and entertaining to read. This reads like it could really happen. Thanks.
Hello, this is a good story. Very well written and entertaining to read. This reads like it could really happen. Thanks.
November 18, 2023
Felt like I've been reading it for months and then the ending was 3 pages long.
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