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    Retro Virion: A Tale of Lunacy & Loss
    Retro Virion: A Tale of Lunacy & Loss
    Retro Virion: A Tale of Lunacy & Loss
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    Retro Virion: A Tale of Lunacy & Loss

    By Russell Kightley

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    A man spirals into madness, believing he's in touch with prehistoric animals, the unborn, and the dead. The world around him teeters on a knife-edge, threatened by a nightmare virus that destroys everything in its path. The unreliable narrator, who's immune to the plague, takes you on a journey into the broken heart of existence, to a fractured consciousness as big as the universe itself, and as small as one man's mind. But is he really mad or is he right? Or is he the hallucinating survivor of a devastating pandemic?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRussell Kightley
    Release dateApr 22, 2021
    ISBN9780645159523
    Retro Virion: A Tale of Lunacy & Loss
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    Russell Kightley

    Russell Kightley has been writing sci-fi stories since 2014. His books are philosophical science fiction / literary fiction / magical realism with a slice of satire and a twist of time travel. Often, they explore the nature of consciousness and reality, but they’re written in a light and easy style, often with wordplay. Russell Kightley, a long time scientific illustrator, lives in Canberra, the capital of Australia, with his wife, an astrophysicist, and his younger daughter, a science student. His elder daughter is a well-known model. Ollie the shih-tzu lives with him and features in some of the stories.

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