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Virus: The Day of Resurrection Kindle Edition

by Sakyo Komatsu (Author), Daniel Huddleston (Translator)

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In this classic of Japanese SF from 1964, American astronauts on a space mission discover a strange virus and bring it to Earth, where rogue scientists transform it into a fatal version of the flu. After the virulent virus is released, nearly all human life on Earth is wiped out save for just ten thousand men and a handful of women living in research stations in Antarctica. Then one of the researchers realizes that a major earthquake in the now-depopulated United States may lead to nuclear Armageddon…

About the author:
Sakyo Komatsu was born in Osaka, Japan, in 1931 and graduated from Kyoto University with a degree in Italian Literature in 1954. He began writing in college and turned to science fiction in 1959, winning the Twenty-Seventh Annual Japan Mystery Writer’s Association Award with the publication of Japan Sinks in 1973 and the Japan SF Award for his Tokyo Vanished in 1985. He’s also the six-time winner of the Seiun Award.
As a screenwriter, director, and producer, he brought the movie version of his novel Bye-Bye Jupiter to the screen in 1984. Komatsu has participated in the production of a number of large public events, including the Japan World Exposition in Osaka (1970) as an assistant producer of the theme pavilion, the Tsukuba Science Exposition (1985), the Silk Road Exposition in Nara (1988), and the International Garden and Greenery Exposition in Osaka (1990). His work on this last event as general producer earned him the Osaka Cultural Award. In 2007, he was the author Guest of Honor at the World Science Fiction Convention, the first to be held in Asia. Komatsu passed away in July 2011.

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File Size: 1214 KB
Print Length: 380 pages
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Publisher: Haikasoru/VIZ Media (December 2, 2012)
Publication Date: December 2, 2012
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
Language: English
ASIN: B00AHJN4H0
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful

Surprisingly fresh sci-fi from nearly 50 years ago

By Michael G Kurilla on March 26, 2013

Format: Hardcover

Komatsu's Virus while published in 1964 was recently translated into English. In spite of the time span, themes and characters eerily resonate with today. Also surprising is that this story was published several years before the classic Andromeda Strain with which it overlaps. The story itself is set in the early 1970's but with an early 60's set of conditions: space exploration was advancing, biological warfare was still being pursued by major nations, and nuclear confrontation between the US and Soviet Union was front and center. In essence, a series of unfortunate steps some by nature and some by man, coalesce to produce a global apocalypse that leaves a tiny contingent of scientists in Antarctica as the sole survivors who must race to prevent their destruction from dead men switches left over from the defunct nuclear powers.

The science is surprisingly relevant even after 50 years. Komatsu weaves a complex web of outer space germs, a fledgling biological manipulation project, a credible influenza pandemic, and a concomitant chicken disease that wipes out vaccine production capability to craft the perfect storm of global annihilation. Societal breakdown and collapse occurs in a realistic, haunting manner. Perhaps the only ding to his prescience might be his optimism that earthquake prediction would have been solved within the decade.

For devourers of the end of the world apocalypse theme this is a definite classic that should not be overlooked.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful

The Cold War, Japanese Style

By Amazon Customer on October 31, 2014

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Reading this book in the early stages of the Ebola outbreak may not have been my smartest choice.

_Virus_ is grim, bleak, exciting, and even a little over the top campy--not quite in equal measure (it's mostly grim). Instead of a viral outbreak turning most of the world's population into rampaging zombies, an outbreak kills just about everybody. And rather than taking the post-apocalyptic moment as its starting point, Komatsu attends at great length to collapse of human civilization. In grand Cold War fashion, the militaries and governments of the US, Soviet Union, Great Britain, Japan, and others are tripping over themselves and each other (in ways I can't specify without revealing too much). Scientists make a variety of almost-right guesses in their efforts to stop the disease.

My biggest complaint with the book is a handful of long, very pedantic lectures about science, philosophy, history, and politics. As often happens with science fiction, the science both matters and doesn't--if you're a geneticist or microbiologist, I can imagine there are all kinds of problems that most of us wouldn't recognize. But it seems at times as though Komatsu wants to bury any problems with the science (or philosophy or history) in words words words! You can skim those parts and probably won't miss a lot.

That, and 1960s gender politics. Don't be surprised.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful

Can't stop reading over

By Denis on April 12, 2013

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This is the original novel by Sakyo Komatsu that was adapted into the 1980 movie "Virus" (Fukkatsu no Hi).
I was only a child when I watched it and since then my appreciation for any kind of catastrophical movies never lessened, especially those involving viruses and the likes . That is to say, the fascination that movie played on my imagination!
When I found out that finally the original novel had been translated in English, I rushed to get the book as soon as possible.
And the wait was all worth it: the story is enticing from start to end to read and follows step-by-step, deep in details, the plot portrayed in the movie.
There are some minor tweaks in the names, the major one being the disease name, that goes by "Tibetan flu" instead of the more impressive "Italian flu" like it was in the movie but, apart from that, I have no complaints at all.
A masterpiece I highly recommend to every science fiction reader, in particular those with a thing for disasters.

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A very chilling take on the virus apocalypse trope. ...

A very chilling take on the virus apocalypse trope.

Ive read a lot of apocalyptic novels so far, and this one, despite its age, ranks among the top books in the genre... Read more

Published 3 months ago by Sebastian Hansen

Tough read

Japanese doesn't always translate eloquently...the theme is good, but sometimes the author, or the translation, really takes a left turn into la-la land and gets kinda lost. Read more

Published 19 months ago by GOB PROGRAM Y/N

Epic and chilling

Pre-dating The Andromeda Strain and The Stand by several years, Virus shows how the world falls apart due to mass extinction and the efforts of survivors in Antarctica to try and... Read more

Published on August 19, 2013 by Robert M.

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