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Cornwall, Nebraska - 894 catatonic, 86 dead
Boland, California - 1200 blind
Berwick, Maine - 2100 severely mentally retarded
McKay, Maryland - 2300 with complete loss of memory
Small towns, each wiped out as surely as if bombed off the face of the earth.
The president's announcement was simple: "My fellow Americans, the people of the United States are under attack. Terrorists are using germ warfare against us and we must take extraordinary enforcement measures. I will ask Congress to declare a state of national emergency..."
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Jack L. Chalker (1944 - 2005)
Jack Laurence Chalker was born in Baltimore, in 1944. He received an MLA from Johns Hopkins University and taught history and geography for over a decade before becoming a professional writer in 1978. He was active in the fan community from his teens and though he published work as an editor and critic, it is for his fiction that he is best known. He was a prolific author, writing across genres successfully, and was nominated for the Hugo and John W. Campbell New Writer awards, among others. His major work is The Well of Souls sequence, comprising ten books across two series, and featuring the 'godgame' narrative device that was his signature. He died in February, 2005.
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