| The Scarlet Plague Contributor(s): London, Jack (Author), Battles, Matthew (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 1935869507 ISBN-13: 9781935869504 Publisher: Hilobooks OUR PRICE: $11.66 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Science Fiction - Steampunk |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2012930720 |
| Series: Radium Age Science Fiction |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5" W x 7.4" (0.30 lbs) 128 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Jack London's plague novel, in which the world's population has been reduced to a few scattered bands of primitive scavengers, has influenced subsequent science-fiction apocalypses and dystopias -- from George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four to the movies Road Warrior and Idiocracy. Outside the ruins of San Francisco, a former UC Berkeley professor of literature recounts the chilling sequence of events which led to his current lowly state -- a gruesome pandemic which killed nearly every living soul on the planet, in a matter of days. Modern civilization tottered and fell, and a new race of barbarians -- the western world's brutalized workers -- assumed power everywhere. Over the space of a few decades, all learning has been lost. Unlike the professor on Gilligan's Island, the narrator is the least useful member of a thriving tribe, whose younger generation (who boast names like Hoo-Hoo and Har-Lip) are mostly descended from a the tribe's brutish founder. He was known only by the title of his former occupation, so the tribe's name is: Chauffeur. A bleak, at times darkly humorous glimpse into the future by an author best known for red-blooded adventure yarns set in the Klondike Gold Rush. |