When Sci-Fi Tackles the Plague

In the small coastal city of Oran, Algeria, rats begin rising up from the filth, only to die as bloody heaps in the streets....

A city is hit by a sudden and strange epidemic of "white blindness"....

For Oxford student Kivrin, traveling back to the 14th century is more than the culmination of her studies - it's the chance for a wonderful adventure....

An audacious and powerful debut novel: a second American Civil War, a devastating plague, and one family caught deep in the middle....

Kirsten Raymonde will never forget the night Arthur Leander, the famous Hollywood actor, had a heart attack on stage during a production of King Lear. That was the night when a devastating flu pandemic arrived in the city, and within weeks, civilization as we know it came to an end....

In I Am Legend, a plague has decimated the world, and those unfortunate enough to survive are transformed into blood-thirsty creatures of the night....

This is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form the links in a chain letter of death....