Virus
Annotated for Today's Global Digital Humans (and Aliens)
$125.58
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
8 December 2026
Summary
A critical, annotated version of Narlikar’s iconic novel about a cybervirus attack by an advanced alien species-with updated text and added material.
A year before Robin Cook’s Invasion (1997)—in which an alien force activates a latent biological virus in humans—and almost a decade before Liu Cixin’s The Remembrance of Earth’s Past trilogy (2008-2010)—in which humanity’s scientific progress is curtailed by an alien supercomputer’s “sophon-lock”—Jayant Vishnu Narlikar’s Virus (1996) pa…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262056281 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262056283 |
| Author: | Jayant V. Narlikar, Sami Ahmad Khan |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 8 December 2026 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 165mm x 229mm |
| Series: | Imagination, Annotated |
Critics Review
ENDORSEMENTS
“This highly realistic science fiction, like a modern history already unfolding, presents the strange possibility of human technological civilization confronting the mysterious universe. The weight of reality merges with the vastness of space, delivering profound shock and endless contemplation.”
—Liu Cixin
“This is a book to be cherished by scholars and readers of global SF. The contextual materials offer an excellent perspective into Indian SF and Narlikar’s place in it.”
—Suparno Banerjee, Professor of English, Texas State University; author of Indian Science Fiction
“I envy the ‘global digital citizens (and aliens)’ invited to read Jayant Narlikar’s Virus for the first time in this volume. Superbly edited and immersively annotated, it stands out for including the author’s own sparkling voice in debating why it is more relevant now than ever before.”
—Anindita Banerjee, Cornell University; coeditor of the series Studies in Global Science Fiction
Jayant V. Narlikar
Jayant V. Narlikar was an astrophysicist, internationally known for his work in cosmology. He also published science fiction and was a gifted science communicator, contributing books, articles, and radio and television programs.
Sami Ahmad Khan is a writer, academic, and documentary producer currently teaching science fiction and creative writing at Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. He is the recipient of a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Fellowship, a Fulbright FLTA Grant, and a UGC-MANF Senior Research Fellowship. His books include Red Jihad, Aliens in Delhi, Star Warriors of the Modern Raj: Materiality, Mythology and Technology of Indian Science Fiction, and The Speculative Route: Futures from South and Southwest Asia and North Africa.
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