![]() ![]() ![]() Not only does he unleash it on Ireland for the IRA’s actions, but unleashes it on England for creating the historical conditions which fertilised the IRA, but also Libya for training and supplying them. He develops a myriad of split personalities, and seeks his vendetta by concocting a disease that only kills women and which has only male vectors, unleashing it on the Irish population. ![]() O’Neill is left jaundiced and deranged from the trauma, seeking to bring revenge. The protagonist, Irish-American scientist John Roe O’Neill is in Dublin, when his wife and children are killed by an IRA car bomb that parallels the real life Dublin-Monaghan bombing, albeit that the real event was perpetrated by the UVF. The setting of The White Plague is primarily Ireland, still at that time in the depths of the ethno-sectarian violence that defined The Troubles from the end of the 1960’s until the end of the 1990’s. So if you’re one whose sense of expectation and titillation are rendered obsolete by notions of ‘what happens at the end’, then do not read further. I should add that this analysis will contain information that is tantamount to spoilers. A lesser known work, 1982’s The White Plague takes his science fiction into a more real and bizarrely disturbing setting. ![]() The following article first featured on the site Excuse The Blood and is syndicated with permission of the author.įrank Herbert will be primarily known as the author of the Dune series, to the extent that its popularity outweighs and obscures his work outside of the franchise. ![]()
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