The Scarlet Plague

Synopsis

It is the year 2072, sixty years on from the scarlet plague that decimated the earth's population. As one of the few who knew life before the plague, James Howard Smith tries to impart what he knows to his grandsons while he still can. Jack London's visionary post-apocalyptic novel The Scarlet Plague was written in 1912.

Ideas Explored

• Anti-Literacy Society
• Knowledge Loss After Plague
• Plague-Era Civilization Restart
• Post-Apocalyptic Recovery

Metadata

Source: OpenLibrary

Tags: FictionAmerican Science fictionPlagueEnd of the worldClassic LiteratureScience FictionAmerican literatureRegression (Civilization)FICTION / Alternative HistoryFiction, science fiction, general

isfdb_id: 57647

openlibrary_id: OL74485W

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