“If only my AP Bio textbook had been so fun. “A thorough and morbidly funny study of some of the world’s deadliest diseases… Readers will be swept away by this energetic and enlightening survey” ' rich and thought-provoking book. It's also a profound reconsideration of our common understanding of our most famous stories of sickness and science.' Plus the uneasy history of human autopsy, how the HIV virus has been with us for at least a century, and more. Interspersed are origin stories of a different sort-how a rye fungus in 1951 turned a small village in France into a phantasmagoric scene reminiscent of Burning Man. Learn the tragic stories of Patient Zeros throughout history, such as Mabalo Lokela, who contracted Ebola while on vacation in 1976, and the Lewis Baby on London’s Broad Street, the first to catch cholera in an 1854 outbreak that led to a major medical breakthrough. Written in the authors’ lively and accessible style, chapters include page-turning medical stories about a particular disease or virus-smallpox, Bubonic plague, polio, HIV-that combine “Patient Zero” narratives, or the human stories behind outbreaks, with historical examinations of missteps, milestones, scientific theories, and more. They only have two weeks before Cyclo implodes - but two weeks isn't nearly enough for Hana or for the life Fenn is finally wishing he could have.From the masters of storytelling-meets-science and co-authors of Quackery, Patient Zero tells the long and fascinating history of disease outbreaks-how they start, how they spread, the science that lets us understand them, and how we race to destroy them before they destroy us. She’s hell-bent on saving Cyclo and her own life, but if Fenn and the ship don’t die, he can’t save his sister. And then he discovers Hana - a girl who’s never really had the chance to live. The money for the death mission is the only way his sister will survive. When the entire crew flees overnight and Hana is abandoned, she realizes something is terribly, violently wrong with Cyclo.Ĭyclo is the first of its kind to die, and Fenn is a young mercenary tasked with recording the dying process - but exposure to the toxic ship will kill him.

He's a boy on a death mission.Ĭreated by her geneticist mother in secret, Hana’s grown up alone, cared for by the biological spaceship Cyclo. She's an illegally created girl abandoned in deep space.

Told from the dual POVs of an artificially created Korean girl and a biracial Chinese mercenary, this thrilling sci-fi romance is perfect for fans of Beth Revis and Amie Kaufman.

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