It delves even deeper than a typical end-of-the-world story, though, by setting the villian and a few other characters on a long, quiet walk through what's left of Ireland, showing how the plague has warped life. This novel has another great idea, that of a man-made pandemic. Herbert is great at big ideas and thoroughly thinking them through, showing how each and every aspect of life and society might be impacted (see Dune). Society, religion, and morality are all irrevocably transformed by the White Plague.Īt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.įrustrating. As government security forces feverishly hunt for the renegade scientist, he wanders incognito through a world that will never be the same. The plague is the work of a solitary individual who calls himself the Madman. The few surviving women are locked away in hidden reserves, while frantic doctors and scientists race to find a cure. Infected areas are quarantined or burned to the ground. As fully half of the human race dies off at a frightening pace and life on Earth faces extinction, panicked people and governments struggle to cope with the global crisis. It begins in Ireland, but soon spreads throughout the entire world: a virulent new disease expressly designed to target only women. What if women were an endangered species? From Science fiction grandmaster Frank Herbert, creator of the Dune universe, comes this novel of bioterrorism and gendercide.
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