The Eternity Plague by Ross B Lampert

In 2035, Dr. Janet Hogan makes a stunning discovery: every one of earth’s nine billion inhabitants has become infected by five species of naturally-mutated viruses; viruses that hadn’t infected humans before. And everyone is now immortal.
Or are they? By the time Janet learns this immortality is an illusion, it’s too late to change people’s beliefs. Some love her for creating this miracle and the coming paradise they long for. Others hate her for what they see ahead: immoral behavior without consequences, overpopulation, famine, and worse. Zealots demand that she save people’s souls, humanity, the earth… or the viruses. Or else.
Janet realizes this awful truth: no matter what she does, no matter what anyone else wants, sooner or later, billions will die and she’ll be blamed. Will she live long enough to find a way out of this trap?
Meanwhile, the viruses are still mutating. And no one

Category: Hard Science Fiction

The Eternity Plague has entered a new phase: virtually everyone around the globe is being encased in a chrysalis and no one has any idea what people will be like after they hatch. Will they even be human?
A small group of people in Raleigh, North Carolina, who haven’t chrysalized struggle to stay alive after society collapses around them. And they wait, and wonder: what will emerge?