The Consciousness Plague by Paul Levinson - SF - SFBookcase.com - Reference of Science Fiction and Fantasy Novels/Authors.

Series: Misc
Genre: SF
ISBN: 0765300982
Pages: 320 pages
Publisher: TOR
Price: $24.95
Reader Rating: 8 out of 10
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The Consciousness Plague by Paul Levinson

Description: A new hard-SF mystery featuring Phil D'Amato!

"As a genre-bending blend of police procedural and science fiction, The Silk Code delivers on its promises," said The New York Times Book Review of the first Phil D'Amato novel. Now, D'Amato is back. The Consciousness Plague is about memory - more particularly, how the loss of memory, in slivers of time deducted from a growing number of individuals, can subtly undermine and play havoc with everything. Dr. D'Amato, NYPD forensic detective, investigates and finds evidence of a bacteria-like organism that has lived in our brains since our origins as a species and may be responsible for our very consciousness. There's evidence for this consciousness bug in ancient Phoenician and Viking culture, and everywhere he looks in our world. A new antibiotic crosses the blood-brain barrier and inadvertently kills the bug. Phil himself is a victim of the memory drain, and must struggle to get the proper authorities to pay attention before everyone loses so much memory that they forget that they forgot in the first place.