Radium Age Science Fiction: The Scarlet Plague (Series #00) (Paperback)

from Polaris-

A remarkably prescient tale for our times told briskly by one of the great masters of the short story.

from sparkleandchico

Every once in a while I dip into something outside of my normal genre and in the public domain. This short book caught my eye due to the other books by the author. It is some time in the future. A primitive grandfather and his two wild grandchildren are forraging for food or more accurately eati...

from john257hopper

A gripping and quite horrifying little story about a post-apocalyptic world in 2073 where almost the entire population has been wiped out by the eponymous plague. The narrator is an old man, the only survivor of the world before, recounting to a group of cynical and disbelieving boys the disaster...

from la2bkk

I was pleasantly surprised by this short work. Unlike most, I have never been impressed by London's works, finding them to lack any sophistication- in my view, even his seminal effort Sea Wolf reads more like young adult fiction. Nonetheless, Scarlet Plague is a departure in its stark, dismal por...

from karl.steel

can't decide if it wants to be socialist or deeply reactionary. would like to have had London do a working-men's version. standard account of reversion to base,which, in this case, means 'prehistoric' inferior to Purple Cloud in its account of the final horror of civilization's endhilarious to me...