I read a book today Oh Boy

Largely about the relationship between language and our experience of reality, The Embedding is published by SF Masterworks, and rightly deserves to be. But there's much more to the book than this, and Watson - a former English lecturer - works the title harder than in any novel I've ever read. We get a clue to this early on with references to the French poet Raymond Roussell, whose debut work Impressions of Africa is a Matryoshka doll of brackets nested within brackets (hold on to that concept), leaving you clueless as to how many diversions deep you're in, let alone which section is parenthetical to which, and you might as well give up trying to remember the index statement. Pierre is an ethno-linguist who has managed to insert himself with the Xemahou deep in the Amazon forests. Their lands are in the first stages of inundation by a gargantuan dam which will bury the trees out of sight and out of mind, leaving the valuable timber ripe for plucking from its sodden ...

Indonesia: you are leading a team through the hot zone, in every sense, of a new epidemic. You are looking all around you for the source but cannot find it. Where do you look next? Carriers is a medical thriller about the hunt for a novel filovirus, ie a highly contagious micro-organism whose victims often die by bleeding out. It was published in 1995, on the heels of Richard Preston's The Hot Zone , which deals with the real-life search for the world's most famous filovirus, Ebola. Like its fictional relative in Carriers , Ebola is a haemorrhagic virus which, following an incubation period lasting anything from a few days to two or three weeks, enters its terrifying final phase.Eextreme bleeding, internal and external, conspires with diarrhoea and vomiting to provide the  coup de grâce for the victim and a death sentence for most in the vicinity. Performing the good offices of a Michael Crichton, Lynch uses a rattling good story that hums with tension as the USAMRIID...