KOONTZ DARK PROPHECY

Does 40 years a writer American called Dean Koontz imagined a global pandemic due to a virus that called Wuhan-400 developed in laboratories in China. Located the history in the year 2020 and novel titled 'eyes in the dark' (The eyes of darkness), published in the 1981.

In these times of restlessness and fear by the global pandemic that currently affects the entire population of all continents and that keeps us in both physical and mental confinement, he has opened several doubts about its origin. Because, the theory of a supposed virus prediction over the years 80.

Koontz was a kind of humorous revisionist from the Stephen King stories. en 1981 published “Los Eyes in the Dark", response to King's novel "Apocalypse", in which a deadly virus endangered the world population. Koontz invented the story of a mother who loses her child, but soon she is beset by signs assuring you that you are still alive and need your help.

Within this story, Koontz imagined a wicked government center in the city of Gorky, in the Soviet Union, where they made a terrible biological weapon, el Gorki-400, un virus, "Much more deadly than Ebola", that killed the 100 by 100 of the infected in less than 24 hours after infection. At that time, the Russians were the threat of Western capitalism and they were always the bad guys in the novels of gender. Nevertheless, en 1989, with the fall of the Berlin wall and the dismantling of the Soviet Union, Koontz's editors told him that would reissue the novel, but that it would be better to remove references from the War Cold, which was a subject of the past, and that it was better to place the “enemy” in another superpower that could be seen as terrible. So Koontz and his publishers thought of China, now world epicenter of communism, always the great enemy of the American capitalists, the main readers of Koontz. Hence, they located the biotechnological complex where the virus. por tanto, the "Gorki-400" became the "Wuhan-400".

In such a story is mentioned to the Wuhan-400, since according to scientists it is designed from a strain of more than 400 microorganisms created so artificial, so in fiction, they call it "the perfect weapon" because infects only humans and cannot subsist outside the body or in environments cold below 30 degrees.

 "It's a modest little thriller. Was my first try to write a mix of genres with action, suspense, romanticism and a paranormal touch. It doesn't have the intensity, nor the humor, nor the depth of characters, the complexity of the plot or the rhythm of my later novels, but people love it ”, Koontz sincerely affirms of this novel, that at principle signed with the pseudonym Leigh Nichols.ç

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