THE SCARLET PLAGUE
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May 8, 2012
NOW AVAILABLE!
As of today HiLoBooks’ gorgeous paperback edition of Jack London’s apocalyptic science fiction novel The Scarlet Plague is available for sale. $12.95 — cheap!
ORDER FROM AMAZON! ($11.01 plus shipping; available for Prime)
If you’re extra-eager to help out the cause, send $14.00 per copy via PayPal to: jglenn@hilobrow.com. S&H included.
Want to SUBSCRIBE to the ENTIRE SERIES of six titles? Send $50.00 via PayPal to: jglenn@hilobrow.com. S&H included.
And if you’re in Boston, buy a copy from PAZZO BOOKS or SEEK BOOKS in West Roxbury. Heck, visit them both!
Introduction by Matthew Battles, cofounder of HiLobrow and HiLoBooks and author of Library: An Unquiet History, the forthcoming history of the written word Letter by Letter, and the new science fiction collection The Sovereignties of Invention. Battles is currently a fellow at Harvard’s metaLAB (Berkman Center for Internet and Society).
Supplies are limited! Act now! You’ll want to collect every installment in this unique series!
Serialized here at HILOBROW from January through April of this year, The Scarlet Plague tells the story of a gruesome pandemic which kills nearly every living soul on the planet, in the year 2013. 2012 marks the centennial of the book’s first publication.
“I knew Jack London was all about romanticizing nature and the frontier and primitive peoples and, you know, the wild,” writes Kurt Andersen in his 2012 blurb for HiLoBooks. “But this showed me a whole new realm of London’s ambivalence about civilization: The Scarlet Plague is not just among the first modern post-apocalyptic fictions — starting right about now, a global contagion wipes out nearly all 8 billion earthlings — but maybe the most Edenic and winsome one ever.”
Thanks for the boost, Boing Boing! Please help us spread the word — here is the Amazon URL: http://amzn.to/HiLoScarlet
For more info on the Radium Age science fiction book series, visit the HiLoBooks homepage.
Hitting the shelves next month: HiLoBooks’ gorgeous paperback edition of Rudyard Kipling’s utopian science fiction novel With the Night Mail (and “As Easy as A.B.C.”), currently being serialized at HILOBROW.