THE COLLAPSE is a web-based simulator that starts with you–Patient Zero in a smallpox pandemic.
Type in your address, and the simulator places you on a map. It then asks you questions about what you want to do in response to symptoms, riots and food shortages, and so on. As you travel, you spread the pathogen around your community until it jumps to other cities and then around the world. Along the way, you’re given frightening facts about pandemics.
THE COLLAPSE is a promotion for a new game by Ubisoft, THE DIVISION, that came out in March.
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And if you’re interested in what a real pandemic of a novel strain of influenza would look like, be sure to check out my work THE THIN WHITE LINE, available for free here.
Here’s a screenshot of me infecting everybody at Calgary Rockview Hospital. Sorry about that! 🙁
LPStoBSNonline.org has published a list of some 100 books as part of its ultimate reading list for nurses–“some of the most respected and widely read books about nursing from an assortment of genres”–and included my self-published book, THE THIN WHITE LINE. Previously, this book was named to LVNtoRN.net’s Top 50 Must-Read Books for Nurses in 2012.
If you’re a fan of Steven Konkoly’s work, notably his JARKARTA PANDEMIC, a fictional account of a man trying to keep his family safe as the world collapses due to a pandemic of a deadly flu–or even if you’ve never read this book before–you’re in for a real treat. Konkoly has issued an additional 30,000 words (which were cut from the original publication, making the total work 170,000 words) for free. He is also promoting my self-published pandemic scenario THE THIN WHITE LINE as an additional free bonus feature and an ideal companion to his book. 
Recently, I posted an announcement that THE THIN WHITE LINE, my fictional history of a severe influenza pandemic, was nominated by 
I just received a letter from