The Black Flame
Author: Stanley Weinbaum
Published: 1948
The Black Flame is a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by Stanley G.
Weinbaum. It starts several hundred years after most of mankind is wiped out by
a plague and tells the story of a family of immortals who seek to conquer the
world with advanced science. The book is divided into two novels - Dawn of the
Flame and The Black Flame. They concern a brother and sister who have become
immortal. In Dawn of the Flame the sister is a Joan-of-Arc-type, leading the
battle against the mutated of mankind. By the time of The Black Flame, she is
jaded and finds that being an immortal can be boring.
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