"Journals of the Plague Years."

Title"Journals of the Plague Years."
Year for Search1988
AuthorsSpinrad, Norman [Richard](b. 1940)
Secondary AuthorsAronica, Lou, and McCarthy, Shawna
Secondary TitleFull Spectrum
Pagination410-83, with an editors' note on 409
Date Published1988
PublisherBantam Books
Place PublishedNew York
KeywordsMale author, US author
Annotation

Dystopia. An AIDS-like pandemic/plague spreads throughout the world and anyone with it is put into a quarantine zone. Written from the point of view of both those with the plague and those fighting it. At the end a virus defeats the plague, and an introductory statement written fron Luna City in 2143 suggests a eutopian outcome.

Additional Publishers

Rpt. as Journals of the Plague Years. New York: Bantam Books, 1995.

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Author Note

(b. 1940)

Full Text

1988 Spinrad, Norman [Richard] (b. 1940). “Journals of the Plague Years.” Full Spectrum. Ed. Lou Aronica and Shawna McCarthy (New York: Bantam Books, 1988), 410-83, with an editors’ note on 409. Rpt. as Journals of the Plague Years. New York: Bantam Books, 1995. PSt

Dystopia. An AIDS-like pandemic/plague spreads throughout the world and anyone with it is put into a quarantine zone. Written from the point of view of both those with the plague and those fighting it. At the end a virus defeats the plague, and an introductory statement written from Luna City in 2143 suggests a eutopian outcome.