{"product_id":"9780988306233","title":"The Fungus","description":"A brilliant London scientist breaks a genetic code that will end world hunger, but something goes terribly wrong in the lab and a plague is released upon Great Britain. The lucky ones die quickly, gruesomely consumed by a ravenous fungus, but others survive and are transformed into something . . . different. London is cut off from the rest of the world by encircling warplanes bent on stopping the spread of the deadly mutation by any means possible. Only a last-ditch suicide mission, a descent into the microbial hell of ground zero, can save mankind from its own invention.\u003cp\u003eWith its breakneck pace and razor-sharp wit, THE FUNGUS is a horrific tour de force that also happens to be tremendously fun to read. A cult favorite since it was first published in the mid-eighties, this reissue includes a new introduction by the author and contains the hilarious HAK Letters as an addendum. Illustrated with electron microscope imagery.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat the critics say:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"THE FUNGUS is excellently bizarre. I loved it and you find it grows on you\" -Brian Aldiss\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Loud, scary, sick fun. You will never again go near mushroom soup\" -Kirkus Review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A first-rate and vivid thriller\" -Publishers Weekly\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A spectacularly gruesome nasty, written with inventiveness, grisly wit, and considerably more intelligence than almost any of its competitors\" \u003cbr\u003e -Ramsey Campbell\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"It grabs, it's real and it keeps you reading. Taut, surprising, gripping\" -Science Fiction Review\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Thorpe and Bowker","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47013907431664,"sku":"9780988306233","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780988306233_p0.jpg?v=1763883003","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780988306233","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}