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Jack London

Lifespan
1876 – 1916
Nationality
American
Active
1906 – 1918
Works held
8

Jack London (1876–1916), famous for The Call of the Wild and White Fang, was also a serious early science-fiction writer. The Iron Heel (1908) is a landmark dystopia of oligarchic tyranny; The Scarlet Plague (1912) is one of the first modern post-apocalyptic novels; and ‘The Unparalleled Invasion’ and ‘The Red One’ push into stranger territory still. His muscular naturalism gave American SF an early jolt of social conscience.

The works

  1. 1918
    Cover of The Red One The Red One
  2. 1912
    Cover of Punainen rutto Punainen rutto Cover of The Scarlet Plague The Scarlet Plague
  3. 1908
    Cover of Il tallone di ferro Il tallone di ferro Cover of Rautakorko: Vallankumousromaani Rautakorko: Vallankumousromaani Cover of The iron heel The iron heel
  4. 1906
    Cover of Before Adam Before Adam Cover of Ennen Aatamia Ennen Aatamia

Wrote across

1900s1910s

Recurring themes

Social SFDystopiaPost-ApocalypticAdventureFirst ContactPsychic Powers

Kindred authors shared themes

Bryce WaltonFrederik PohlGeorge O. SmithH. B. FyfeMurray LeinsterNelson S. BondPoul AndersonRandall Garrett

Contemporaries writing in the same era

L. Frank BaumEdgar Rice BurroughsH. G. WellsE. NesbitLord DunsanyAlgernon BlackwoodLuis SenarensVictor AppletonAnonymousRoy Rockwood

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