Alejandro Morales is an author of short stories and novels including The Brick People, Death of an Anglo, and Captain of these Men of Death. In his historical/futuristic novel The Rag Doll Plagues, he envisions a terrible disease that attacks humankind in three different time periods, 1870s, 1970s and 2070s. The novel is more than a science fiction story, it addresses the limits of science and medicine, the impact of climate change and how disease can be viewed as a metaphor for racism.