The Scarlet Plague

Jack London First published 1910

About this book

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.

Subjects

american fiction (fictional works by one author)
american literature
american science fiction
classic literature
dystopias
end of the world
fiction
fiction / alternative history
fiction, science fiction, general
plague
regression (civilization)
science fiction
social aspects