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Richard Preston

Born

in Massachusetts, The United States

August 05, 1954

Website

https://richard-preston.net/

Genre

Science, Nonfiction

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Richard Preston is a journalist and nonfiction writer.

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Average rating: 4.03 · 220,908 ratings · 16,302 reviews · 21 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus 4.16 avg rating — 121,698 ratings — published 1994 — 137 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Demon in the Freezer 4.15 avg rating — 18,150 ratings — published 2002 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Cobra Event 4.03 avg rating — 16,584 ratings — published 1991 — 63 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring 4.12 avg rating — 9,065 ratings — published 2007	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Crisis in the Red Zone: The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come 4.42 avg rating — 7,862 ratings — published 2019 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Panic in Level 4: Cannibals, Killer Viruses, and Other Journeys to the Edge of Science 3.74 avg rating — 5,101 ratings — published 2008 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	First Light 4.25 avg rating — 506 ratings — published 1987 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2007 by Richard Preston (Editor), Tim Folger (Series Editor) 3.95 avg rating — 379 ratings — published 2007 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	American Steel 4.12 avg rating — 270 ratings — published 1991 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Boat of Dreams: A Christmas Story by Richard Preston, George Henry Jennings (Illustrator) 3.33 avg rating — 150 ratings — published 2003 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“In biology, nothing is clear, everything is too complicated, everything is a mess, and just when you think you understand something, you peel off a layer and find deeper complications beneath. Nature is anything but simple.”
― Richard Preston, The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus

tags: 180, biology, nature

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“To mess around with Ebola is an easy way to die. Better to work with something safer, such as anthrax.”
― Richard Preston, The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus

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“The earth is attempting to rid itself of an infection by human parasite.”
― Richard Preston, The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus

tags: ebola, medical

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Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson (1999)

Allies (Turing included) try to decrypt Axis communication codes in WWII.
Rated 4.26

2 votes, 50.0%

Deception Point by Dan Brown (2001)

An object found in the Artic ice drawn NASA and militia forces.
Read when it came out. Liked it better than Digital Fortress. Wanted to revisit to rank it properly.

2 votes, 50.0%

Debt of Honor by Tom Clancy (1994)

Debt of Honor (Jack Ryan, #7) by Tom Clancy

Present day Japanese man seeks to avenge Japan's WWII loss to America. Next great Clancy's book I haven't read.

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Upgrade by Blake Crouch (2022)

Not so highly rated but at least contemporary, and still fun I hear.

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Demon in the Freezer by Richard Preston

A non-fiction option. Hot Zone was good. This one includes anthrax and seems to predict COVID.

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