Agent: Felicity Blunt, Curtis Brown (U.K.). The research side of the story line may feel unrealistic to those with a science background, but the personal politics and gender dynamics are spot-on, and readers will feel connected to the main characters’ struggles and resilience. Smaller vignettes highlight other implications of the situation: a woman takes advantage of the situation to kill an abusive spouse, and an entrepreneur becomes rich through a women-only dating site for those who wouldn’t previously have considered dating women. Within the pages of this thrilling book, the reader learns of the initial origins of this flu-like disease, which is first detected in Scotland, killing only males of any age. The End of Men is set in the very near future, in the year 2025. A series of narratives follows major players over the next six years, including Glasgow physician Amanda Maclean, who, after being disbelieved about her treatment of Patient Zero, becomes determined to discover the source of the plague London social historian Catherine Lawrence, who’s collecting stories of the plague while protecting her husband and son for as long as possible and Elizabeth Cooper, a junior CDC pathologist who is in over her head in representing the U.S. The End of Men is Christina Sweeney-Baird’s debut speculative fiction piece. In Sweeney-Baird’s philosophically sweeping and emotionally intimate speculative debut, a viral plague that’s first detected in 2025 Scotland kills 90% of the world’s men within days of contact.
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