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“The Fatal Eggs”, Chapter VI – Weekly Reads

Previously, the news of the miraculous discovery spread and Professor Persikov’s life was turned upside down… It’s time to read on into Chapter VI of Fatal Eggs, a gripping novel that despite being written almost 100 years ago, couldn’t be more relevant today. Enjoy the read!

“The Fatal Eggs”, Chapter IV – Weekly Reads

The long weekend is approaching and that can only mean one thing – less “working from home” and more “reading at home”. Previously, Chapter III of “Fatal Eggs” saw Persikov discover the red ray of light and its aggressive effects… More to come in Chapter IV below!

“The Fatal Eggs”, Chapter I – Weekly Reads

Today is the start of your next Bulgakov journey into the 1925 satirical Sci-Fi novel, “The Fatal Eggs”, a parable of bureaucratic bungling, avoidable disaster and drastic countermeasures which unfold as the world grapples with biological disaster. Comparison can be drawn to works such as Mary Shelley’s “The Last Man”, “The Plague” by Albert Camus and José Saramago’s haunting “Blindness”, all eerily appropriate reads and chillingly relevant in this unprecedented time, of which was acknowledged in a recent article in The Economist, which can be found here https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2020/03/25/bulgakovs-biting-vision-of-an-avoidable-plague.