MERI Mirror, April' 2020

Quarantine- Predicted in 2005
-By Tanisha Aggarwal
With the world going through a Pandemic, it came to notice that over 15 years
ago, author Peter May wrote a novel regarding a city in quarantine suffering
from a hazardous virus. At that time the scientists were predicting a bird flu,
although a bird flu is different from the ongoing virus , yet it still has the same
effects with regard to quarantine and lockdown. In the book, May depicted what
it would be like if a city undergoes a complete lockdown. London, being one of
the epicenter of the global pandemic was the main part of his book, as he came
up with the idea by doing a lot of research. However in 2005, the publishers
rejected this book calling it too unrealistic and impractical. After the outbreak
of corona virus, one of the fans tweeted and suggested may to express his
opinion by writing a book on the ongoing pandemic, the 68 year old author then
realized that he had already done that, he contacted his editor and made him
read his book, his editor was shock and told him that this is something that
needs to be published without more delay. Once rejected book , now is called as
the crime thriller that predicted a world in Quarantine.
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