Author Gay Courter, 75, an American novelist, is quarantined
on the Diamond Princess (she and her husband might be among those evacuated),
has the experience of seeing her novels come to real life.
Her novel in question is “The Girl in the Box”. This incident will probably catch Hollywood's attention (or at least Netflix).
Authors who dream up bizarre epidemics and Russian or
Chinese plots may see their predictions play out in front of them, in horror,
or perhaps they say “I told you so.”
There have to be some novel manuscripts around about manufacturing a SARS
virus, it’s just too obvious.
There are cases where publishers actually worry that a
fiction book could spur copycats or unstable heads of state. Putin-ordered assassinations (or North Korean)
in other countries – well, remember “The Interview”.
The novel seems to be self-published and is Volume 1 of theSeven Seas Series (Sept 2019).
There was also a kidnapping of Colleen Stan in the 1950s
that became an episode of a series called “Girl in the Box”
My own novel “Angel’s Brother” imagines a mystery virus that
affects mainly people with poor circulation or at high altitudes, but (with an
unusual radioactive core) that can copy a person’s consciousness and deliver it
back to a “superspreader” who remains healthy.
After infection, the older victim has hallucinations and sudden death
(which may happen with reinfection by Covid-19).
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