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It was Parasite Eve,
along with Koji Suzuki’s Ring
series, that began the J-Horror boom. A pageturner about the rebellion
of mitochondria, it became the Japan Horror Novel Award’s
first winner and the inspiration for a videogame that has sold
close to a million copies throughout the world. In Japan, the
film version of Parasite Eve was so popular that in one
study, when asked what color they thought mitochondria were, most
people responded, “green” (which is how they were
represented in the film, but obviously not how they actually look).
Eve is a parasitic mitochondria
reproducing itself at alarming speed. Her goal? To take over human
evolution. Two manifestations of Eve will work independently to
a wild, scientific and absurdly sexual end. The one Eve in a lab
is mutating into the form of a perfect woman, the other is growing
inside the transplanted kidney of an unhappy teenage girl, waiting
to be impregnated by her lab-sample counterpart. In her path are
doctors whose fascination with Eve may ultimately lead to her
victory.
Hideaki Sena holds a Ph.D. in
pharmacology and has given numerous lectures on the subject of
cell biology as well as the future of the sci-fi genre. He lives
in Japan.
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“Comes
just in time for summer getaway reading…
Oozes with enough violence and sexual perversity to make Caligula
blush.”
—TIME
“Hideaki
Sena, a pharmacologist, microbiologist and now pop icon, knows
all too well how to combine the scientifically plausible with
the psychologically unimaginable… Have fun with it, by all
means, but don’t keep it on the bedside table.”
—Susan Salter Reynolds, L.A. Times
“Parasite
Eve combines Michael Crichton’s scientific cutting-edge
plausibility with David Cronenberg’s abject flesh/sex horror.
Throw in Frankenstein and The Blob, synthesize,
and enjoy.”
—Fangoria
“Sena’s
work in pharmacology and microbiology lends this Japanese import
a sense of discovery and fear that resonates when new science
is not fully understood. SF and horror fans who liked Suzuki Koji’s
Ring…will find Parasite Eve a chilling
tale on a cellular level; recommended.”
—Library Journal
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