Cold Storage
I love end-of-the-world stories: Outbreak (virus), Lucifer’s Hammer (meteor strike), The Stand (another virus), Alas, Babylon (nuclear war), The Death of Grass (yet another virus)…the list goes on and on. (And includes the same author's Aurora .) Now here’s Cold Storage about averting the end of the world. Cordyceps novus is a fungus, birthed in outer space, returned to Earth on a fragment of Skylab that didn’t burn up in the atmosphere, and now intent not only on surviving, but propagating with every piece of living matter it can find. Buried 300 feet underground in a US government bunker and then forgotten when that bunker was decommissioned and sold to the public, it’s now doing its best to infect what lies above: Atchison Storage, open to the public at all hours. Which is pretty much where the action stays, as the two staff members on duty discover what’s going on, a gang of would-be badass bikers come to buy stolen 4K televisions, and a dead deer and dead cat won’t
