Russian scientists report finding a wholly new type of bacteria in Lake Vostok, sealed under the Antarctic icecap for a million years or more.
Paging H. P. Lovecraft? George Romero? Anyone?
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How about John W. Campbell?
Ohhh, have you read this? Best and strangest thing(!) in sf in years, and a quick read:
The Things.
Nice. Y'all went there. ;)
We have met the alien, and he is us.
Sorry to spoil the fun.
Party pooper.
I had a sad. And a relieved.
Or is that just what those who have already been taken over by the bacteria want us to believe?
I hope you're right, Dave H, but for the purpose of buying some time and preventing an immediate panic, "contamination" would be my choice for a cover story. Nothing to see here, false alarm, ha ha, who told you we unearthed an unstoppable plague, that's silly, ha ha, we didn't dig up the Cenozoic Flu, that is if it had a reporting name, which it totally does not, and it's not Cenozoic Flu, ha ha ...
I've seen this movie. Some of us survive and hug each other during the end credits, some of us die ugly in the wire of the Army Plague Centers when we panic and try to break out, and there will probably be an annoying child. Thanks, Russian scientists!
Mike James
"Tekeli-li, tekeli-li!"
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