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PostHeaderIcon I Am Looking For A Novel That Describes How The Earth Would React To A Pandemic?

1:00 PM | Posted by Swine Flu Info Blog | Edit Post
Basically, on the TV show Heroes, there is this virus that COULD wipe out 93% of the world's population.
So I was wondering, are there any novels out there with a similar premise? About a deadly pandemic that has wiped out or will wipe out most of humanity, and how we react?
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3 comments:

aidan402 said...

Yes, one that automatically comes to mind is
The Plague Tales by Ann Benson
"The Plague Tales consists of two parallel stories: one an account of a king's physician in 14th-century England, the other a tale of futuristic London--a time when antibiotics no longer cure and "Bio-Cops," empowered to exterminate those suspected of carrying disease, prowl the streets."
theres also
Year Zero by Jeff Long
"........Long once again combines adventure, horror, religion, and philosophy in a tale that can be, at times, absorbing reading. Nathan Lee Swift is a young anthropologist who falls prey to Professor Ochs, a grave-robber in the worst sense of the word. Miranda Abbott is a scientific wunderkind who has managed to create a way to clone humans. When a virulent plague dating from 00 C.E. (the titular year zero) is released and sweeps across most of the world, leaving billions dead, it is up to Miranda, Nathan Lee, and her scientist colleagues to find a cure. In order to best do that, ......."
its a rolicking tale, worth a read.

May 11, 2009 at 1:00 PM
melville said...

It's about a plague that threatens a city rather than the entire world, but "The Plague" by Albert Camus is probably the greatest work ever on this premise.

May 11, 2009 at 1:00 PM
jane7 said...

The Stand - by Stephan King
Earth Abides

May 11, 2009 at 1:00 PM

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