The other five essays, though less sensational, also deal with the borderlands of scientific knowledge and exploration.
I highlighted the passages I found most terrifying, and it is the stuff of nightmares and zombie films. The introduction to this collection and one essay focus on Ebola. Preston is best known for his best-selling nonfiction 1994 book The Hot Zone, about the Ebola and Marburg viruses, two mysterious and especially nasty diseases that cause massive hemorrhaging. Then there was the COVID-19 pandemic, and all of a sudden it seemed acutely relevant. It’s one of those books I assumed I’d eventually get to, but just didn’t seem urgent. This book was recommended to me years ago by my piano teacher, and it has been on my shelf for a decade.
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