Parasite Eve
Hideaki Sena
Feb 2016 · Kodansha USA
4.5star
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When Dr. Nagashima loses his wife in a mysterious car crash, he is overwhelmed with grief but also an eerie sense of purpose; he becomes obsessed with reincarnating his dead wife. Her donated kidney is transplanted into a young girl with a debilitating disorder, but the doctor also feels compelled to keep a small sample of her liver in his laboratory. When these cells start mutating rapidly, a consciousness bent on determining its own fate awakens, bent on becoming the new dominant species on earth.
Parasite Eve was the basis of the hugely popular video game of the same name in the U.S. and has been cinematized in Japan.
Parasite Eve was the basis of the hugely popular video game of the same name in the U.S. and has been cinematized in Japan.
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4.5
67 reviews
Autumn
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November 2, 2017
Excellent story. Terrifying. Puts an entirely new perspective on the cause of spontaneous combustion. Many scientific terms and components are used but the characters personal lives and thoughts are shared enough so that this novel is anything but dry. - - Highly recommend this book to anyone who loves horror. I was interested in this book because I played the 1998 PS game Parasite Eve. This story is nothing like the game (no Aya Brea) but they share the same premise.. "it's not a disease it's evolution"
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Michael Davies
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May 21, 2017
Played the game a long time ago, so I picked this up because of that. It's good even if you haven't.
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Morgan Spicer
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February 6, 2023
Precursor to the video game series, this is a book that starts slow then once it picks up it is hard to stop. Truly creepy ending.
About the author
Hideaki Sena Ph.D. Pharmacology, was still a graduate student when his first novel, Parasite Eve, turned him into a pop cultural heavyweight. He became the first recipient of the Japan Horror Award and is credited—alongside Koji Suzuki, whose Spiral appeared the same summer—with initiating a smart, new style of horror writing in Japan. Subsequent novels include the Japan Sci-Fi Award winner Brain Valley and Tomorrow's Robots. Dr. Sena, who lectures on microbiology and genre fiction, lives in Sendai, Japan.
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