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- Book Synopsis
- <p><strong>A strange outbreak becomes more than a medical crisis when science, fear, and human behavior collide under pressure.</strong> In <em>Contagion</em>, Katherine MacLean brings her clear, intelligent science-fiction approach to a premise built around danger spreading through a group, a system, or an environment that no longer behaves safely. The threat is biological, social, and psychological at once: what matters is not only what the contagion is, but how people respond when uncertainty begins to infect judgment.</p><p>MacLean was one of classic science fiction's sharpest writers of scientific and social speculation, especially when her stories turned on psychology, biology, communication, perception, and the fragile balance between reason and panic. <em>Contagion</em> fits that strength, using the tension of an outbreak to examine survival, diagnosis, trust, and the human need to understand a crisis before it overwhelms the people trapped inside it.</p><p>For readers of vintage science fiction, medical SF, psychological speculation, and mid-century magazine science fiction, <em>Contagion</em> offers a strong example of MacLean's ability to turn a scientific idea into a human problem. It belongs naturally in the Positronic line as classic SF driven not just by threat and discovery, but by intelligence, pressure, and the dangerous speed with which fear can spread.</p>
- About The Author
- Katherine MacLean (1925-2019) was an American science fiction writer whose work is admired for its intelligence, scientific grounding, psychological insight, and interest in how human beings behave under unusual pressures. She studied economics, psychology, and other subjects, and worked in a variety of jobs before and during her writing career, experiences that helped give her fiction an unusually broad view of work, institutions, behavior, and social systems.MacLean began publishing science fiction in the late 1940s and became known for stories that treated scientific ideas as deeply human problems. Rather than relying only on machines, battles, or distant planets, she often explored psychology, biology, sociology, perception, probability, communication, and the unintended effects of technological or scientific change. Her stories frequently ask how people think, cooperate, panic, adapt, or misread reality when confronted with new conditions.Her best-known works include "The Snowball Effect," "The Diploids," "Incommunicado," "Pictures Don't Lie," and many stories that appeared in the major science fiction magazines of the twentieth century. MacLean was part of the classic SF magazine tradition, but her fiction often feels unusually modern because of its attention to systems, behavior, and the mental side of science. She remains an important writer for readers interested in thoughtful, idea-centered science fiction shaped by psychology, biology, and social observation.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781515404187
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Positronic Publishing, (03 February 2016)
- Number of Pages
- 42
- Weight
- 76 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 229 x 152 x 3 mm
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