Posthuman by M.C. Hansen
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Science Horror, Body Horror, Extreme Horror
“Something was affecting the very being of every animal species in Decoy that it didn’t kill, something that caused madness as well as created intelligence – something, something. But what?”
“What are we going to find in there?” he asked, noting the hospital, and remembered why they were there. “Nothing you haven’t already seen,” said Hollie, exiting the Humvee. But it wasn’t true. There were plenty of dead bodies; however these were nothing like the corpses Kaufman had seen out in the desert. The remains here were ghastly, like malformed ghouls out of some horror video game. Most of the beds were empty at first, but as Hollie led them nearer the terminal ward, they were almost all filled with the abhorrent forms.”
“This is exactly what he wants,” he said. “He’s been luring us here from the very start.”
Tag: Posthuman
Book 28: Nevada
I haven’t read a sci-fi book in awhile. Sounds very interesting. 🤔
Blurb: The first great evolutionary leap took mankind to the moon.
The second is going to take us beyond the grave.
Kaufman Striker spent his whole life learning to be unfeeling; it took hanging himself to change that. Ten years ago, he thought he’d gotten away from being the town’s peculiar celebrity; thought he’d gotten away from his father’s warped ideas about self-mastery, but his dogmatic dear old dad has reached out from the past to continue his education with a letter encouraging Kaufman to take his own life.
For today in Decoy, Nevada, death isn’t permanent.
In an underground military facility, a top-secret resurrection project has been sabotaged. Except scientific resurrection doesn’t account for everything. Not the bipedal coyotes that stalk the streets or the thousands of missing town’s people, nor Kaufman’s own subtle “enhancements.”
Part psychological thriller, part dystopian sci-fi, Posthuman is a suspense-horror novel that probes what would happen if science discovered proof of life after death — and then nudged evolution to take us there. With deep themes and a rich, intricate plot, Posthuman has enough twists, turns, and surprises that once you reach the last page, you’ll want to start reading it all over again.