Sakyo Komatsu

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…

The Day of Resurrection

Virus

An island in the Japanese archipelago disappears overnight, raising fears for the entire country. Prescient 1973 novel, acclaimed by The New York Times as "a chillingly realistic work of science fiction."

Sakyo Komatsu

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