Parasite Eve
First edition
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| Author | Hideaki Sena |
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| Original title | Parasaito Ibu |
| Translator | Tyran Grillo |
| Cover artist | Chip Kidd |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
| Genre | Science fiction, Horror novel |
| Publisher | Vertical, Inc., (New York) |
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Publication date
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1995 |
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Published in English
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2007 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 320 |
| ISBN | |
| OCLC | 63042620 |
Parasite Eve (パラサイト・イヴ Parasaito Ivu?) is a Japanese science fiction horror novel by Hideaki Sena, first published by Kadokawa in 1995. The book was published in North America by Vertical, Inc. in 2005.
Parasite Eve was adapted into a film and manga series. It was later expanded into two video games that serve as a detached sequel to the novel, along with a spin-off third videogame. The video games have also been adapted into a manga series as well.
are the "energy factories" of biological cells. It is thought that they were originally separate organisms, and a symbiotic relationship between them and early cellular life has evolved into their present position as cell organelles with no independent existence (see endosymbiotic theory).
The novel's plot supposes that mitochondria, which are inherited through the female line of descent, form the dispersed body of an intelligent conscious life-form, dubbed Eve, which has been waiting throughout history and evolution for the right conditions when mitochondrial life can achieve its true potential and take over from eukaryotic life-forms (i.e. humans and similar life) by causing a child to be born that can control its own genetic code.
Eve is able to control people's minds and bodies by signaling to the mitochondria in their bodies. She can cause certain thoughts to occur to them and also make them undergo spontaneous combustion.
The conditions Eve has waited for have arrived; she has found the perfect host in the body of Kiyomi Nagishima. At the start of the book, Eve is the mitochondria in Kiyomi's body. She causes Kiyomi to crash her car; Kiyomi survives but is brain dead. Kiyomi's husband is Toshiaki, a research assistant teaching and researching biological science. Eve influences Toshiaki and a doctor to ensure that one of Kiyomi's kidneys is transplanted into the teenage girl Mariko Anzai as an organ donation. As part of Kiyomi's body, the kidney is also a part of Eve; this prepares Mariko to be a suitable host for giving birth to mitochondrial life, as her immune system would otherwise rebel.
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