The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #145671   Message #3804633
Posted By: keberoxu
11-Aug-16 - 07:18 PM
Thread Name: BS: 88 Books that shaped America
Subject: RE: BS: 88 Books that shaped America
Jack London's "The Scarlet Plague" isn't on that list, is it, although its author is. What gets my attention about that book, is that its author projected its futuristic setting for one hundred years in the future. And "The Scarlet Plague" dates from 1914. So here we are, over one hundred years later.

Correct me if I'm mistaken here -- I have seen none first-hand -- but I believe "The Scarlet Plague" has been adapted for the screen, cinema/and-or television (radio even??) more than once.

And one can certainly look back on both books and films in recent decades that resemble "The Scarlet Plague."