Author: K.J. Jones
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What is a Lyssavirus?
Lyssavirus The recent discovery of lyssavirus sequences from amphibians and reptiles challenges the mammalian origin of lyssaviruses. There is an 85% likelihood that these viruses originated in Palearctic. Definition: The Palearctic is the largest of the eight biogeographic realms of the Earth. It stretches across Eurasia north of the foothills of the Himalayas and North…
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Nine Meals
Remember Peter Sullivan mentioning Nine Meals early in the Series? Well, I did not pull that out of my, um, hat. It’s a real thing. And it was proven true in post-Katrina New Orleans. Interesting, though, Nine Meals never mentioned anything about toilet paper! (jk)
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Attacks on Asian Americans over COVID
(Originally posted in 2021) In Book Five, Escape, I wrote the scene of Eric Wong and the Colonel before learning about these attacks. In retrospect, these attacks make the scene even more poignant. Eric would know about these attacks in what would be for his timeline the recent past. On a personal note, all but…
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Choctaw and Irish
The Choctaw nation and the Irish remember an incredible kindness from over 170 years ago. The Choctaw people were one of the first victims of Andrew Jackson’s Trail of Tears. They were moved to what would become Oklahoma. They were poverty stricken and destitute. They learned about what was happening to the Irish during the…
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K.J. Jones, Sci-Fi Writer 