"First published in 1949 and the winner of the inaugural International Fantasy Award in 1951, Earth Abides went on to become one of the most influential science-fiction novels of the twentieth century. It remains a fresh, provocative story of apocalyptic pandemic, societal collapse, and rebirth"-- "When a plague of unprecedented virulence sweeps the globe, the human race is all but wiped out. In the aftermath, as the great machine of civilization...

After a bacterium turns ninety percent of the world's population into violent predators, Captain Lee Harden, who has been trained for this type of scenario, emerges from his bunker and tries to rally survivors and restore order.

One hundred tales told in ten days by seven ladies and three young men.

A city is ravaged by an epidemic of 'white blindness.' Those first afflicted are quarantined by the authorities in an abandoned mental hospital where societal norms quickly breaks down. Criminals and the physically powerful prey upon the weak, hoarding the meager food rations and committing horrific acts. Inside the hospital is one eyewitness to the nightmare. Following her husband into the hospital, a woman whose sight is unaffected by the plague...

A sweeping look at how the major transformations in history - from the rise of Homo sapiens to the birth of capitalism - have been shaped not by humans but by germs. According to the accepted narrative of progress, humans have thrived thanks to their brains and brawn, collectively bending the arc of history. But in this book, a professor argues that the myth of human exceptionalism overstates the role that we play in social and political change. Instead,...

Dawn of the dead: When a mysterious virus turns people into mindless, flesh-eating zombies, a handful of survivors wage a desparate, last-stand battle to stay alive and human. Land of the dead: The world is full of zombies and the survivors have barricaded themselves inside a walled city to keep out the living dead. As the wealthy hide out in skyscrapers and chaos rules the streets, the rest of the survivors must find a way to stop the evolving zombies...

As aids spreads, fanned by an even more deadly virus, the U.S. is transformed into a virtual police state. Men are forced to wear anti-sex implants, women are forbidden to bear children and the country gets a new government agency: the Federal Bureau of Biological Supervision. The novel follows a group of men and women who rebel.

Traces the massive effort to contain an outbreak of bubonic plague in 1900 San Francisco, detailing how the process was complicated by virulent racism, pseudoscience, and political cover-ups.