Curse 5.0

( Chinese - 太原之恋 - 2010 )

novella by Liu Cixin

translated by Holger Nahm

Published: Beijing Guomi Digital Technology ( Amazon ) - Kindle - 2013
ASIN: B00CSVNKRE


synopsis
A heart-broken young woman has written a virus program called "Curse" that causes a string of foul language reviling her ex-boyfriend to pop up on any computer infected by it. Thanks to the efforts of a multitude of Internet users, however, this tiny curse evolved and is modified into several versions—each more advanced that the last. To what bizarre sort of end of days will Curse 5.0 lead us? The fabled apocalypse could come in many guises. Could one of them be an online butterfly effect, chock full of the darkest humor imaginable?

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