Virus: Annotated for Today's Global Digital Humans (and Aliens)

A critical, annotated version of Narlikar’s iconic novel about a cybervirus attack by an advanced alien species—with updated text and added material.

A year before Robin Cook’s Invasion (1997)—in which an alien force activates a latent biological virus in humans—and almost a decade before Liu Cixin’s The Remembrance of Earth’s Past trilogy (2008–2010)—in which humanity’s scientific progress is curtailed by an alien supercomputer’s “sophon-lock”—Jayant Vishnu Narlikar’s Virus (1996) painted a...