Pioneer podcasting author Scott Sigler has a new book coming out from Crown December 30 and is celebrating with a free serialized PDF of the book, a free audio podcast, and an awesome online poster scavenger hunt.
Contagious is a hard-science horror novel concerning a mysterious pathogen that transforms ordinary people into raging killers, psychopaths driven by a terrifying, alien agenda. The human race fights back, yet after every battle the disease responds, adapts, using sophisticated strategies and brilliant ruses to fool its pursuers. The only possible explanation: the epidemic is driven not by evolution but by some malevolent intelligence.
We should have a review of Contagious here at Tor.com in a couple of weeks.
The scavenger hunt consists of twelve posters spread across popular blogs—find them all and assemble them the right way and the background image will reveal a major plot point in the book. We’re not going to tell you where all of them are, but we will give you four—perhaps they will lead you to more.
Blog of all things cool: BoingBoing
The death-dealing vidcast: Ask a Ninja
Astronomy/science blog and podcast: Bad Astronomy
Site for the author of the 7th Son podcast novel trilogy: JC Hutchins