Illimitable Dominion Reviews

[james_davis_nicoll]

Illimitable Dominion Reviews

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[thomasyan]

I remember enjoying Frank Herbert's The White Plague. Not sure what I'd think of it now. But I think I would be entertained if you chose to review it.

[kathmandu]

Wouldn't "I Am Legend" fall into this general neighborhood also?

Also, not a pandemic, but I can't help thinking these days of "The Taste of Aunt Sophronia", a short story by Zenna Henderson.

[dagibbs]

_Feed_ by Mira Grant?

[magedragonfire]

Max Brooks' World War Z would fit in there, I think.

In the not-a-pandemic category (and also the 'not-a-traditional-work-of-fiction' one), the second adventure of the Pathfinder adventure path Curse of the Crimson Throne, Seven Days to the Grave, concerns an epidemic sweeping through a city-state. I've been wanting to run that AP for some friends for months, and now that I finally have the time to set it up and they have the time to play, it... it might be a little bit too on-the-nose. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[cyphomandra]

Alan Nourse’s The Blade Runner an illness that IIRC initially presents as a mild flu before if untreated returning as a much more lethal form. Unfortunately this particular future has decided to reduce its healthcare budget by sterilising anyone who gets sick in exchange for healthcare (thus creating the underground black market in medicine of the title), which means the illness rapidly becomes a spiralling epidemic.

[jazzfish]

William Gibson's The Peripheral might be, ahem, peripherally interesting. Its "Jackpot" was a series of unspecified disasters that combined to wipe out an awful lot (90%?) of humanity, leaving the lucky survivors riding high.

[kathmandu]

I just read Tobias Buckell's A Different Kind of Place; a zoomed-in view of the world in pandemic, but resonates with your theme.

[(Anonymous)]

Not global, but city-wide: Briar's Book, by Tamara Pierce. Book Four in the Circle of Magic tetralogy.

[(Anonymous)]

Also, Bujold has a Penric novella coming out tomorrow or so about a plague.