The White Plague

The White Plague is a 1982 novel by Frank Herbert, featuring a plague that kills only women and therefore ends the human species.

Scientist John Roe O'Neill is driven mad by a terrorist attack that kills his wife and children. He develops and releases a gendercidal plague in Libya, England, and Ireland, but of course it spreads.

Awards

• Nominated, Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (1983)

Editions

• ISBN 978-0399127212