29 Aug 11:
Bird Flu rears its head again.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-14709024
The book’s front cover, to my mind, shows the pointing protagonist inscrutably saying: “Bird Flew?”
As its readers may discover, this book (first drafted in 2005) is arguably about H5N1 as well as Birds that flew even at the Earth’s Core…
You have been suffering with dream sickness, and a Hawler has suggested you take the sea air for a rest cure. Perhaps you have been strolling along the promenade by the sands of Clacton-on-Sea, wondering whether your life is a dream, and if so, whether it is a real dream, or merely a dream of a dream. You put your face in the space of a seaside cut-out board and on the other side you see… a giant carpet in the wild spiral of a tornado burrowing into the earth, the weave of its multidimensional design revealing the capering of carpet apes, the things that haunt ceilings, the places where poultry becomes meat… You remove your face and find yourself back in the same day as before, with both sides of the cut-out board the same dream or unimaginable reality. But now you and everything else have together become completely nemonymous.
For the full treatment, insert your face in the space of Nemonymous Night by veteran Weirdmonger D. F. Lewis. Let the captain of this earthcraft take you from the left foot of man-city to the nemo of the ‘no me’. On a guided tour of the under-carpet of Inner Earth, decide for yourself if Greg is Greg or really Mike, if Beth is actually Susan, what it is the Hawler does to cure the dream sickness, and whether Mike or Susan might, in fact (or fiction), be you.
http://weirdmonger.blogspot.com/2011/08/breaking-dawn.html
A new short short fiction about Avian Flu.
More warnings about Bird Flu:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/17/bird-flu-swine-flu-warning
And its pathways!
Concerns over Bird Flu research:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/17066147
Mysterious strain:
http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/2012/02/17/8510-2/