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The White Plague
First edition cover
AuthorFrank Herbert
Cover artistAbe Echevarria[1]
LanguageEnglish
GenreScience fiction
PublisherG.P. Putnam's Sons
Publication date
1982
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages445 pp
ISBN978-0-399-12721-2
OCLC8432222
Dewey Decimal
813/.54 19
LC ClassPS3558.E63 W55 1982

The White Plague is a 1982 science fiction novel by American author Frank Herbert about an engineered disease which kills only women. It was nominated for a best science fiction novel Locus Award in 1983.

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