sales of electronic copies (ie, pdf versions)
are strong (Dean Koontz must have some
inside baseball)
The coronavirus disease 2019 discovered within humans in Wuhan, China in 2019 drew parallels to the novel's 'Wuhan-400' bioweapon, [3][4] inspiring both curiosity and conspiracy theories.
Accordingly, the bioweapon's name in the first edition of the novel was named 'โGorki-400โ'. It was later changed in the novel's laboratory as relocated and renamed following the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.[3][4]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eyes_of_Darkness