The Scarlet Coronavirus

Based on Jack London's classic dystopian pandemic novel the Scarlet Plague, the Scarlet Coronavirus tells the story of how a man survived the Coronavirus in the year 2020. The year is 2072, and the earth has been depopulated by the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCov) epidemic. The victims of the mutated 2019-nCov are dead within an hour or less of the first symptoms appearing. The mutated Coronavirus is so swift that research laboratories are wiped out even as scientists are racing toward a cure. As panic spreads, order breaks down and looting and carnage reign. Broadcast stations fall silent. Aircraft fall from the sky as their pilots succumb. 60 years later an old man, Professor James Howard Smith attempts to pass the flame of knowledge to his reluctant grandsons, who have known only a savage existence in an overgrown world - its graphic detail, vivid word-pictures, and remarkable prophetic accuracy make the Scarlet Coronavirus a memorable post-holocaust dystopian story.