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Nanobite
Port Seton.
A quiet town on the east coast of Scotland, not far from Edinburgh
But something is very wrong. A cyclist has gone missing. A woman is followed home from work. A house fire claims three lives. Two teenagers are found dead, their bodies mysteriously drained of blood.
Liam Baxter and Karen Nicholls start to unravel a complex web of horror with a genetics and bioweapons research facility at the centre of it. An experiment involving genetically engineered nano-technology has gone drastically wrong, turning all those who come into contact with it into modern day vampires. They need to stop them before it's too late. But for some, it may already be too late...
A quiet town on the east coast of Scotland, not far from Edinburgh
But something is very wrong. A cyclist has gone missing. A woman is followed home from work. A house fire claims three lives. Two teenagers are found dead, their bodies mysteriously drained of blood.
Liam Baxter and Karen Nicholls start to unravel a complex web of horror with a genetics and bioweapons research facility at the centre of it. An experiment involving genetically engineered nano-technology has gone drastically wrong, turning all those who come into contact with it into modern day vampires. They need to stop them before it's too late. But for some, it may already be too late...
- GenresHorror
237 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 22, 2013
About the author
Neil McGowan
6 books8 followersNeil is the author of Nanobite, a sci-fi/horror thriller and The Surgeon, a gritty horror novel described as ‘fast-paced’, ‘nicely inventive’ and ‘gripping’. He was brought up in Yorkshire, and spent many years working as an aircraft technician throughout the world. He is a prolific author of short fantasy and horror fiction, as well as writing fantasy for children. He has also published Don't Drink the Water, a collection of shorter horror fiction and the novella The Loch. He now lives in Scotland with his wife and two children, and is hard at work on his new novel.
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January 20, 2014
Nanobite presents us with a very unusual, however not too impossible sounding kind of vampire created by nanotechnology. While I enjoyed reading this elaborate and really well-written story, there where two details that bothered me:
First, the relationship between Karen and Liam seemed to come out of nowhere and developed too fast, especially with hints about Karen's unhappy past suggesting a more cautious approach.
Second, the vampires' unrestrained behaviour with overall too emotional outbursts, expressed mostly in obscene talking, which does not bother me in itself but did not feel right with being controlled by nano machines, which suggests a more robot-like and controlled behaviour void of any emotion. Maybe if the author had explained the amplification of aggressive behaviour as a side-effect it would have been more believable.
Despite this, I had a fun time reading Nanobites and was impressed with the simple yet intriguing concept it is based on, which does not seem too far-fetched nowadays and adds another dimension of horror to the vampire genre.
(I received a copy of this book from the author in exchange for an honest review)
First, the relationship between Karen and Liam seemed to come out of nowhere and developed too fast, especially with hints about Karen's unhappy past suggesting a more cautious approach.
Second, the vampires' unrestrained behaviour with overall too emotional outbursts, expressed mostly in obscene talking, which does not bother me in itself but did not feel right with being controlled by nano machines, which suggests a more robot-like and controlled behaviour void of any emotion. Maybe if the author had explained the amplification of aggressive behaviour as a side-effect it would have been more believable.
Despite this, I had a fun time reading Nanobites and was impressed with the simple yet intriguing concept it is based on, which does not seem too far-fetched nowadays and adds another dimension of horror to the vampire genre.
(I received a copy of this book from the author in exchange for an honest review)
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