5/24/2023 0 Comments The White Plague by Frank Herbert![]() I can't but smile at the implications, that if a smart educated scientist gets pissed off they could easily cause more damage than the toys and sticks of military people. He goes mad and creates a plague to destroy the people who wronged him by killing their women. I mean, it's Herbert!Ī violent "Provo" bombing kills the wife and daughters of a molecular biologist that was in Ireland on vacation. The rest is psychological explorations of people motivations and characters, the ubiquitous Herbert attempts to find a solution to the toxic human organizational structures, analysis of history, violence, religion and philosophy. A bit anachronistic, with some pacing issues, The White Plague is still one of Frank Herbert's best.Īfter reading the book synopsis, one expects to get a book about a violent global pandemic, but in fact that's just the first quarter of the book. ![]() ![]() Imagine reading a novel about a global pandemic with the background of Irish violence right about when Covid struck and people didn't know how Brexit was going to turn out and what it would do to Irish tensions. ![]()
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