Bio-Plague In Blood Music

Blood Music explores the idea of a bio-plague ravaging the North American continent, instilling fear around the world of mankind’s destruction. The novel introduces the concept of sentient cells with a conscious. Together as a collective the cells begin to assimilate anyone in contact with them and have begun to reform the surrounding area. This results in a containment of the North American continent and European countries scrambling to understand and stop any potential outbreaks from spreading. The development of these sentinel cells should have helped mankind progressed forward in the area of biotech but it has become a plague instead creating an apocalyptic world with other countries believing this could lead to mankind’s destruction.

This allowed the cells to multiply to within the billions of trillions in a short period of time. They had been allowed to into the drainage system infecting the water supply of the population. Every household within the United States had tainted water, making it easier to spread the noocytes from person-to-person. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) had been informed of a “plague” as the cells have already spread across the continent. This led to the cancellation of “all intra- and international” flights with travellers from the United States quarantined to prevent potential contamination (121). A procedure of this magnitude conjures up images of men in hazardous suits having citizens strip down and sprayed with sterilizing chemicals. The sudden isolation of the country by the CDC has caused panic and chaos with communication between major cities failing. Any physical contact other countries had with North America has been cut off. The plague had the North American continent isolated with countries ceasing to have physical contact created this mood of an apocalyptic setting throughout the story. The story then examines the apocalyptic plague through Michael