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Title	:	The White Plague
Author	:	Frank Herbert
Book Format	:	Mass Market Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 502 pages
Published	:	December 1983 by Berkley (first published August 21st 1982)
Categories	:	Science Fiction. Fiction. Apocalyptic. Post Apocalyptic. Science Fiction Fantasy. Horror. Fantasy. Dystopia

The White Plague Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 502 pages

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The White Plague, a marvelous and terrifyingly plausible blend of fiction and visionary theme, tells of one man who is pushed over the edge of sanity by the senseless murder of his family and who, reappearing several months later as the so-called Madman, unleashes a terrible plague upon the human race—one that zeros in, unerringly and fatally, on women.

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Original Title:	The White Plague
ISBN:	0425067572 (ISBN13: 9780425067574)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	John Roe O'Neill

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Ratings: 3.7 From 5637 Users | 300 Reviews

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I absolutely loved this book. I already knew Herbert was a master of the genre, a man that has achieved in writing few have achieved, and I knew he wrote the "Dune" series, but when I took The White Plague off the shelve, I really didn't make the connection between Frank Herbert the author of this book, and THE Frank Herbert. Good thing I realised it at the middle of the book, when I took another look to see who wrote this amazing story, and I was like : "oh. now it makes sense. now you tell

I actually prefer this book to Herbert's legendary "Dune". Why? Because it speaks in and of a world I live in. Not cience fiction in the bastardized form we see today, but a true "speculative fiction" page-turner. A well-written story of bio-terrorism that gets out of hand that not only deals with the detective story of how to stop the plague, but what effects will society and politics see out of it as the targeted disease breaks out of the Middle East and ravages all corners of the world?I am

I really dug the premise of this book and the realism of the probleem. A crazed man with powerful motivations creates a plague that quickly wipes out all women and very slowly all men. Eventually, the modern world turns into a very savage place and finally a matriarchal society for the single woman left to every then thousand living men.Even though I liked the plot, it occurred to me after reading this that I do not like Frank Herbert's style. I didn't mind the constant jumping of scenes, but I

Surprisingly, disappointingly dreadful.The characters were flat, unlifelike and none incited any sympathy in me. The story would have looked vaguely interesting on a chalk-board, but was not fleshed out interestingly.The book read like it had never been read. By the author. Full of idiotic verbosity.A bore.I loved the entire Dune series: perhaps my expectations were too high. Or perhaps his style of political generalities and semi-religious drama was transformed into, or revealed as, vapid

An interesting "end of the world" sci-fi novel, that deals with human caused disaster. Since it was one person that caused the disaster - sort of on purpose - we would probably call it a terrorist novel these days. But the novel delves into what happens when one person who tries to strike back at terrorists (the IRA in this case) goes tragically wrong. I was not a big fan of Frank Herbet's Dune (I know blasphemy). But I loved this book.

Disclaimer: I gave up halfway through, so this really only talks about the first half of the book.*The main reason I didn't like this book, and the reason I eventually stopped reading, was that in this book, both the bad guy AND the author treat women as props whose deaths only matter in the affect they have on men. In-universe, the bad guy's motivation for creating the plague was: "I'm going to kill all the women so the whole world can experience the pain I had!!!" Like what? Do you somehow not

John Roe O'Neill is a molecular biologist. He is going to Ireland to work on a project there for an extended time. He hasn't been there long, just getting over the jet lag, when a car bomb kills his wife and children. He was watching from the bank manager's window when it happened. He is distraught. He goes home and seeks revenge. The plague he created is very contagious and fatal for women. Then symptoms for men are mild but they remain carriers. He has released the plague in the targets of his