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"Terrifying story about what could - and possibly has - happen(ed!) when Brazilian killer bees enter the USA and cause every disaster imaginable from mass panic to famine, Scientists and the military set up headquarters at Fort Detrick to stop the menace, but then as every conceivable experiment is carried out to fight the problem, including an immunologist injecting himself with a mass antidote, a massive swarm invades New York, where a major disaster occurs. This excellent novel was written in 1974 and is a hundred times more convincing than the hilariously cheesy Irwin Allen movie adaptation of 1978! Well worth tracking down!"
Nick Warren, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Tone of story
- Dry-cynical
Time/era of story:
- 1960's-1970's
Medical Thriller
Yes
Medical Plotlets:
- cure/disease
Disaster, natural or nuclear
Yes
Kind of disaster:
- bug/animal attacks
Kid or adult book?
- Adult or Young Adult Book
Main Character
Gender
- Male
Profession/status:
- scientist
Age:
- 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
How much violence does he/she use?
- a little
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Main Adversary
Identity:
- natural phenomena
Monster of some sort?
Yes
Kind of monster:
- general monster
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Northeast
- Mid-Atlantic states
Air?
Yes
Air:
- passenger plane
- warplane
City?
Yes
City:
- New York
- Dirty, dangerous (like New York)
- dangerous
- rude people
Misc setting
- fort/military installation
Style
Person
- mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death?
- generic/vague references to death/punishment
How many deaths?
- hundreds or more
Sex
Yes
What kind of sex:
- vague references
- descript of kissing
A lot of techno jargon?
Yes
Kind of jargon?
- biology/medical
Unusual forms of death
- asphyxiation
- poisoning
- dropped from large heights
- fright
- run over
- flamed
- drowned
- biohazard/virus
- stampeded
- perforation--bullets
- blunt clubbing (like seals)
- exploded into bits
Unusual form of death?
Yes
Amount of dialog
- roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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