The Silver Plague

In the frozen colonies of the Jovian moons, something silver is spreading. The Silver Plague begins as a metallic sheen on the skin, but its victims soon face something far worse than death: transformation, madness, and an uncertain fate that hints at humanity's obsolescence. When the epidemic sweeps across humanity's off-world settlements, the fragile political order fractures. Accusations fly. Conspiracies emerge. And as the disease carves a path through the outer planets, a terrifying question surfaces: is this a natural phenomenon, an engineered weapon, or something altogether more incomprehensible? Written in 1957, dePina crafted a paranoid masterpiece that channels Cold War anxieties into something truly alien. The Silver Plague is less about survival and more about the creeping dread that the universe might not have room for humanity after all. For readers who loved The Thing and Invasion of the Body Snatchers, this is their origins story, told in the language of space-age terror.