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Preamble

Signs and Wonders

By Francine Prose

Reading the literature of past plagues and suddenly seeing our present reflected in a mirror.

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Illustrations from a 1906 French translation of H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds by Henrique Alvim Corrêa.

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The Virus and the Martians

By Mike Jay

In H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds, an all-conquering civilization had no defense against a humble microbe.

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What Preparations Are Due?

By Travis Chi Wing Lau

Daniel Defoe attempted to teach a nation how to live in a world where the next crisis is always closer than it appears.

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