The post-apocalyptic series readers are describing as "one of the best post-apocalypse stories I've ever read." Once infected, the virus shuts down organs, kills nerve impulses and even reprograms the way we think. The virus becomes us. But the process takes eight hours. If you only had eight hours left to live, what would you do? Archie is a state-of-the-art computer system. He can sequence a genome within eight hours. He can upload a virus’s make-up into the cloud for research centers all over the world. By the time a dangerous virus arrives, we will already be inoculated against it. Archie will make pandemics obsolete. Unfortunately for us, he was developed too late.