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Friday’s Celebrity Blogger — Jeff Carlson

Don’t miss today’s celebrity blog by Jeff Carlson.
Jeff is the author of two spectacular SF-thrillers (Plague War and Plague Year), winner of last year’s Writer’s of the Future contest, and is a current Philip K. Dick Award-nominee for Plague War.

Jeff Carlson — “The next breath you take will kill you.”

by Jeff Carlson

The core concepts behind Plague Year were easy. I grew up in northern California, at sea-level, and yet the San Francisco Bay Area is just a three-hour drive from the Sierra mountains. I’m a lifelong skier and backpacker. My friends and I didn’t ever want to go back to work. As a writer, I’m always looking for cool ideas, and I began to think, “What if we could never go home again?”

Review of Plague War by Jeff Carlson

by Jason Sizemore

Plague War is the engaging follow-up to the entertaining SF thriller Plague Year. (You can read my earlier review of Plague Year here.) I’m pleased to report that Plague War is that rare sequel that improves upon the original.

A review of Plague Year by Jeff Carlson

by Jason Sizemore

In this near-future, action-packed novel, humanity finds itself on the brink of extinction thanks to one research group’s good intentions. Nanobots designed to devour cancer cells are misprogrammed and thus they devour anything warm-blooded. This leaves fringe groups of people trapped in various mountainous locations around the United States.