If today's news was fiction, would it get published?

A PUBLISHING HOUSE EMAILS YOU offering fat royalties for a novel about conquering the world in a new way, with no military force and without firing a

shot, without launching a missile, nor airstriking any world leader.

 The editors propose a very different sci-fi tale about – believe it or not – a mysterious engineered illness that conquers not just a nation but most of the world and it does it in a few short months.

 Until this year, you’d be forgiven for scratching your head as you wondered how a story like that could unfurl, and what the editors had been drinking over lunch.

Test tubes

 If it’s 2018, where would you begin?

 Perhaps we’ll despatch a few 007s with test tubes brimming over with a mysterious superbug.

 Perhaps it’ll be the larvae of the most dangerous type of mosquito mated with fleas, or cockroaches, or wasps.

Continues on the blogs for my ocean adventuring book, Sailing to Purgatory, at
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