The Bridge by Janine Ellen Young Contact. That said, suppose contact took an entirely different vector.
Billions die, fully ninety percent of the Earth's population is infected.
Those who survive the plague are forever changed by it, for encoded in the virus is the very essence of what it means to be Karasan. They will stop at nothing to complete their vision. The Bridge is, quite simply, as mind altering as the virus described in its pages. Take Carl Sagan's Contact and the most lethal contagion that Robin Cook ever imagined and you might come close to what Janine Ellen Young has accomplished here. An outstanding sophomore effort from the author of the cyber-thriller, Cinderblock .