Virus: The Day of Resurrection

Sakyo Komatsu
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A mysterious virus wipes out all of humanity, save for researchers in the frigid Antarctic. To save what is left of the world from nuclear destruction, the scientists must find a way to return to America.Reads L to R (Western Style). In this classic of Japanese SF from 1964, American astronauts on a space mission discover a strange virus and bring it to Earth, where rogue scientists transform it into a fatal version of the flu. After the virulent virus is released, nearly all human life on Earth is wiped out save for fewer than one thousand men and a handful of women living in research stations in Antarctica. Then one of the researchers realizes that a major earthquake in the now-depopulated United States may lead to nuclear Armageddon…
Genres: Science FictionFictionJapanese LiteratureJapanApocalypticNovelsScience Fiction FantasyPost Apocalyptic
312 Pages

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