In 1910, Jack London saw COVID coming... English original edition- The Scarlet Plague is a post-apocalyptic fiction novel, written in 1910. London imagined a global epidemic in the year 2013 that killed almost all the people in California, and presumably on Earth. In the novel, this "scarlet plague"-its victims became red-faced before dying-is recalled 60 years later, in the year 2073, by the only living pandemic survivor: a one-time UC Berkeley professor of English literature. Jack London (1876-1916) was an American novelist and short-story writer whose best-known works-among them The Call of the Wild (1903) and White Fang (1906)-depict elemental struggles for survival. During the 20th century he was one of the most extensively translated of American authors. Il Disoriente - Science Fiction Fantasy Adventure A paperback and e-book series published by Intra. Global readability, Italian charm.