What if a computer virus could be transferred from machine to man? That provocative-if not downright silly-question is the basis of Virus!, a wild science-fiction comedy in the tradition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The Elite Computer Virus Task Force has a problem. Somehow, one of its most experimental-and dangerous-computer viruses has escaped. Battling this software outbreak are the no-nonsense General Piddle, scion of an intergalactically famous beat poet and blimp fetishist; the absent-minded Professor Fassbinder, whose scientific experiments inevitably result in the creation of giant mutants; extraterrestrial shapeshifter and pinochle enthusiast Zev Zyzzyx; and robot prototype Jet, the ultimate personal digital assistant who is a martial arts expert but has problems connecting to a printer.... This comic free-for-all takes our heroes (and villains) from the very depths of outer space all the way to downtown Denver, as they do battle with the Multiple Masters, a race
