Books About Pandemics
12 Sci-Fi Books About Pandemics That You Won't Be Able to Put Down
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For some people, the scariest science-fiction books involve alien attacks, rebellious robots, and malevolent technology. For others, sci-fi is truly at its best when it introduces an unseen killer: a deadly disease. While fictitious pandemic novels hit a little bit closer to home than tales of time travel and parallel universes because — unlike most anything written by Nnedi Okorafor or Octavia Butler — they reflect a very possible reality, even if the stories are a little more fantastical. Novels about inexplicable viruses and devastating pathogens definitely shouldn't be overlooked by sci-fi-lovers (or really anyone), and these 12 books about pandemics are some of the best out there.
