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THE CONSCIOUSNESS PLAGUE

PAUL LEVINSON

This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this novel are either fictitious or are
used fictitiously.

THE CONSCIOUSNESS PLAGUE

Copyright ┬й 2002 by Paul Levinson

All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book, or portions thereof, in any form.

This book is printed on acid-free paper. Edited by David G. Hartwell

A Tor Book Published by Tom Doherty Associates, LLC

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Tor is a registered trademark of Tom Doherty Associates, LLC.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Levinson, Paul. The consciousness plague / Paul Levinson.тАФ1st ed. p. cm.

"A Tom Doherty Associates book." ISBN 0-765-30098-2 (acid-free paper) 1. PoliceтАФFiction. 2.
Memory disordersтАФFiction. I. Title.

PS3562.E92165C662002 813'.54тАФdc21

2001054059

First Edition: March 2002

Printed in the United States of America

0987654321

TO NEW YORK CITY, NOW AND FOREVER

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Thanks to my editor, David G. Hartwell, for his deft editing; my agent, Christopher Lotts of the Ralph
Vicinanza Agency, for his savvy selling; Dr. Stanley Schmidt, editor of Analog, where Phil D'Amato (this
novel's protagonist) first appeared in a series of novelettes in the 1990s; my wife, Tina, and our children,
Simon and Molly, for their wonderful first readings of this manuscript; and the many readers of The Silk
Code, my first Phil D'Amato novel, who said they wanted more....

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