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Explaining COVID
My new book, Virusphere, has been recognized internationally as relevant to understanding the COVID pandemic. I am a consultant physician and evolutionary virologist.
This is why I have been asked to help media and readers all over the world to explain and understand what is happening. Virusphere already explained the basis of COVID. But I thought it might help further if I revised the intro and two of the chapters to deal specifically with what is going on. Thankfully, my publisher was helpful and that revised narrative is now available as a kindle on amzon.co.uk. More information is available at www.fprbooks.com.
I would like to thank my editors, Hazel Eriksson and Myles Archibald at Harpercollins and my agent, Jonathan Pegg, for their help in this.
VIRUSPHERE: Ebola, AIDS, COVID-19, and the Hidden World of the Virus.
This is why I have been asked to help media and readers all over the world to explain and understand what is happening. Virusphere already explained the basis of COVID. But I thought it might help further if I revised the intro and two of the chapters to deal specifically with what is going on. Thankfully, my publisher was helpful and that revised narrative is now available as a kindle on amzon.co.uk. More information is available at www.fprbooks.com.
I would like to thank my editors, Hazel Eriksson and Myles Archibald at Harpercollins and my agent, Jonathan Pegg, for their help in this.
VIRUSPHERE: Ebola, AIDS, COVID-19, and the Hidden World of the Virus.
3 websites closed
Hi,
Apologies to my readers for the fact that all three of my websites, frankpryan.com, fprbooks.com and swiftpublishers.com have been peremptorily closed by TSOhost, which had taken over Mr Site. I've reconstructed my fiction site with Bluehost and should have it up and running in a day or two. Not sure when I'll get the other two sites up and running. n the meantime folks can get in touch with me here on Goodreads, through my fiction address, FrankPRyan, also on Goodreads, or through twitter #FPRBooks and #FrankPRyan.
At present attempting to help folks deal with COVID 19. I've revised the Virusphere kindle to take it into the context of the overall understanding of what viruses are, how they infect us and their impact on human evolution and the functioning of the biosphere.
All best,
Frank
Virusphere
Apologies to my readers for the fact that all three of my websites, frankpryan.com, fprbooks.com and swiftpublishers.com have been peremptorily closed by TSOhost, which had taken over Mr Site. I've reconstructed my fiction site with Bluehost and should have it up and running in a day or two. Not sure when I'll get the other two sites up and running. n the meantime folks can get in touch with me here on Goodreads, through my fiction address, FrankPRyan, also on Goodreads, or through twitter #FPRBooks and #FrankPRyan.
At present attempting to help folks deal with COVID 19. I've revised the Virusphere kindle to take it into the context of the overall understanding of what viruses are, how they infect us and their impact on human evolution and the functioning of the biosphere.
All best,
Frank
Virusphere
Viruses: the fourth domain of life
In a chapter in a new book on symbiosis by Springer Nature, I redefine and defend the essential nature of viruses as "non-cellular, capsid-encoding obligate symbionts". I also propose that they have played, and are still playing, a vital role in the evolution of biodiversity, and massively so the evolution of the placental mammals, and contribute an essential role in the health and functioning of the biosphere. When you put all of that together, it becomes rational to classify viruses as the fourth, and only non-cellular, domain of life.
Publication of the book was delayed by COVID. I outlined some of the evidence for the above in my book Virusphere, which was aimed at a non-expert reader. When the chapter is published, hopefully in August, I shall duly provide the reference.
Publication of the book was delayed by COVID. I outlined some of the evidence for the above in my book Virusphere, which was aimed at a non-expert reader. When the chapter is published, hopefully in August, I shall duly provide the reference.
