Mainly due to its entertaining purpose, fiction has a greater market penetration than non-fiction, but it seems that a large part of its potential to illustrate current biological threats is being missed. Sixteen biothrillers are analysed to present the main ideas that make up a singular biohazard discourse. To ascertain the feasibility of the situations proposed in these books, there is a thorough study of available documentation on epidemics, acts of biowarfare and bioterrorism, and biological accidents. Thus, such works can be taken as reasoned simulations of a biohazard event since they...