When
a virus designed and developed with ill intent develops consciousness, it is up
to Nerida to tell the world and determine the consequences of this unintended
development. However, since this odd news comes from a host of Aboriginal
spirits inhabiting her wife’s body, Nerida isn’t too sure if she wants to risk
her career, sanity, and relationships to follow their intuition about the
virus.
Nerida
and Mari are a loving couple who travels all over Australia to visit mining
towns and indigenous communities to find adventure and appreciate the
beautiful country. Mari is a free soul and an artist who supports her wife, Dr.
Nerida, an aboriginal doctor. Mari is a sweet woman, but most people don’t know
that when the curtains are drawn and they are alone, Mari’s soul leaves her
body only to be inhabited by non-physical spirits who speak through her. Tudor
Dandy, a gay Native American medicine expert, reveals to Nerida that death is
only the beginning of life. Conflicted yet incredibly intrigued, Nerida sets aside
all her years of hard-core scientific research and follows the guiding and
inspirational path set by these spirits. However, when these spirits tell her
of a conscious virus, she is faced with a painful dilemma. Should she set aside
medical guidelines and allow these disembodied spirits to guide her in her
career for the greater good, or should she risk her reputation and the lives of
her patients just to prove to herself that these spirits know everything?
The Conscious Virus by Miki Mitayn is a
quirky and incredibly unique story that pits spirituality against science in
a riveting adventure, featuring a
multidimensional, extraordinary protagonist. With Mari and Nerida’s utterly unusual lives, readers will find
themselves drawn into mysticism and spiritual wisdom explored in relation to
the afterlife. This is a novel with a plot that is stunningly imagined and
intelligently executed.
