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It forms part of Labour plans to "take the fight to the web", with ministers fielding questions in online forums, such as the price comparison website moneysupermarket. com and "virals" - internet spoofs designed to be emailed between friends - increasingly sitting alongside conventional party political broadcasts.

Media news, UK and world media comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk 2009

It forms part of Labour plans to "take the fight to the web", with ministers fielding questions in online forums, such as the price comparison website moneysupermarket. com and "virals" - internet spoofs designed to be emailed between friends - increasingly sitting alongside conventional party political broadcasts.

Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk 2009

We then get some thrilling battle scenes between humans and 'virals' set in a shopping mall and the surrounding countryside which is much more in the vein of the Fallout computer games and possibly Dawn of the Dead, whilst the idea of humanity cowering behind walls from the threat beyond recalls Carrie Ryan's recent novel The Forest of Hands and Teeth and its sequel.

Archive 2010-04-01 Adam Whitehead 2010

"The Passage" starts as an apocalyptic thriller that "ends our civilization" in 32 minutes and in a relatively short time turns most surviving humans into the "virals" described above, at least in North America, and then it morphs into a post-apocalyptic SF novel of discovery, exploration and survival.

"The Passage" by Justin Cronin (Reviewed by Liviu Suciu) Liviu 2010

We then get some thrilling battle scenes between humans and 'virals' set in a shopping mall and the surrounding countryside which is much more in the vein of the Fallout computer games and possibly Dawn of the Dead, whilst the idea of humanity cowering behind walls from the threat beyond recalls Carrie Ryan's recent novel The Forest of Hands and Teeth and its sequel.

The Passage by Justin Cronin Adam Whitehead 2010

Should the strategy center around microsites or blogs, "virals" or sponsored links, Twitter feeds or Facebook widgets?

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Cronin has imagined a frighteningly believable future in which the human race has been nearly wiped out by "virals," superstrong mutants who only come out at night and live on the flesh of humans and other large mammals.

The Seattle Times 2010

In "The Passage" (Ballantine Books, $26), a 766-page sprawling summer read, Justin Cronin delivers a twisted vampire tale fueled by government myopia and paranoia, the perfect incarnation for bloodsuckers ( "virals" in Cronin's parlance) in the post-9/11 world.

Christian Science Monitor | All Stories 2010

One of the few bands of survivors is the Colony, a FEMA-established island of safety bunkered behind massive banks of lights that repel the "virals," or "dracs" - but a small group realizes that the aging technological defenses will soon fail.

Publishers Weekly - Children's Books News 2010

Cronin has imagined a frighteningly believable future in which the human race has been nearly wiped out by "virals," superstrong mutants who only come out at night and live on the flesh of humans and other large mammals.

The Seattle Times 2010