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Mira Grant lives in California, sleeps with a machete under her bed, and highly suggests you do the same. Mira Grant is the open pseudonym of Seanan McGuire, a successful fantasy writer and the winner of the 2010 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.

An incredible, disturbingly plausible tale of what happens to a world where medical treatments have minds of their own i09.com on PARASITE Parasite is believable, disturbing and only the beginning ... The distrubingly realistic plot, coupled with interspersed events of hostility from the infected, make for a suspense ridden read SciFiNow on PARASITE A creepy spine-tingler of a medical thriller Charles Stross on PARASITE The most readable, wittily written - and even charming zombie thriller in years MORNING STAR on PARASITE A riveting near-future medical thriller that reads like the genetically-engineered love child of Robin Cook and Michael Crichton John Joseph Adams on PARASITE Parasite is a thoroughly enjoyable nightmare SUNDAY SPORT on PARASITE So tense that I sometimes forgot to breathe THE NOCTURNAL LIBRARY on PARAISTE Readers who enjoy Michael Crichton's scientific thrillers ... will be equally pleased with this series BOOKLIST on CHIMERA