Björn recenserade Plague from Space av Harry Harrison
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There are bits of this that haven't aged too well (especially the treatment of the female characters - in sum total, 3: the quickly damseled love interest, a rape victim, and a hysterical farmer's wife). Others still work really nicely, though: it basically feels like a potboiler rewrite of Arrival with a pandemic added on top, and with some nice 20-minutes-into-the-future touches (Pakistani UN soldiers snarking at NYC cops that they wouldn't find their way around in Karachi either). Great read for when you're sufferieng from a really bad cold, too.
There are bits of this that haven't aged too well (especially the treatment of the female characters - in sum total, 3: the quickly damseled love interest, a rape victim, and a hysterical farmer's wife). Others still work really nicely, though: it basically feels like a potboiler rewrite of Arrival with a pandemic added on top, and with some nice 20-minutes-into-the-future touches (Pakistani UN soldiers snarking at NYC cops that they wouldn't find their way around in Karachi either). Great read for when you're sufferieng from a really bad cold, too.