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are there any canons about fictional viruses that can effect both technology/machines as well as organic beings? any medium is cool.

I can only think of the Transformers Hate Plague and Marvel's Techno-organic Virus.

the phalanx from marvel 616 (i'll take "what scarred me mentally as a child" for $500)

Adding actual reading reccs for this:

Annihilation: Conquest: Prologue
Annihilation: Conquest (main miniseries)
Annihilation: Conquest - Starlord
Nova #4-7

Even if you're not the most familiar with the characters it's not hard to pick things up. It's Guardians of the Galaxy (sort of like the movies but slightly more serious) + Nova, a normal guy from NYC who became Marvel's version of Green Lantern, except if the whole Green Lantern Corps died.

Before this they all fought and won a terrible war against space bugs, and an evil Borg virus that infects organic people and machine life is the next threat that comes after.

Sorry, that's Nova volume 4. There's multiple volumes.

Just seconding this recommendation because it's a really good arc and more people should read it.

Reading Annihilation, which comes before Annihilation Conquest, isn't necessary, but it has more background as to the state of things and it's just as good.

The Andromeda Strain is the first one that comes to mind! I've only read the original Crichton novel, but I believe there's a movie adaptation as well.

The Flood/Precursors from Halo.

Seriously. There's a variant from the forerunner book trilogy called "the logic plague", which allows a hivemind to overfeed an AI with data and arguments to have it join the flood.

Writing in trochaic heptameter might be difficult if you do halo 2/3 gravemind, though.

wait, so is that what the flood did to mendicant bias

like from the halo 3 terminals

yep

and it's probably what's going on with the AI clusterfuck in 5

The Ring novels (yes, the ones on which the horror flick is based), esp the last book. Much more emphasis on the virus' effect on organic beings, mind.

the virus "mechanics" is briefly mentioned in transmet

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