The Last Man on Earth Club
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The Last Man on Earth Club

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Six people are gathered for a therapy group deep in the countryside. Six people who share a unique and terrible trauma: each one is the last survivor of an apocalypse.

Each of them was rescued from a parallel universe where humanity was wiped out. They’ve survived nuclear war, machine uprisings, mass suicide, the reanimated dead, and more. They’ve been given sanctuary on th...more
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Published May 20th 2011
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Jason Kristopher
If someone had said to me, "See, there's this book about this therapist and her PTSD patients. And you're going to really enjoy it," I would've laughed for days.

Silly, silly me.

The premise of "The Last Man on Earth Club" is one of parallel universes where the Earth has been damaged/destroyed by various means, and the Interversal Union - a coalition of many of these alternate universes - works to save those refugees that they can from these dying/dead worlds. And in some cases, that's the very la...more
Martin Cooper
Inter-stellar travel is a bust. The stars are just too far away. How much easier to slip sideways and visit other Earths, infinitely duplicated through a chain of alternate universes.

This is the premise behind Paul Hardy's highly original novel The Last Man on Earth Club. Exploration teams fan out from the world they call The Hub to visit its doppelgängers. All too often they find disaster: war, genocide and natural cataclysm. The Hub becomes a magnet for refugees and survivors. Among them are s...more
Kate Sherrod
The conceit behind The Last Man on Earth Club is without a doubt the most original idea for a science fiction novel I've come across in a long, long time. On a multiversal hub world to which refugees of apocalypses (apocalypti?) galore are brought after being rescued from Earth's destruction by everything from solar flares to zombie plagues to Heaven's Gate-style mass suicides on a planetary scale, six people, each of whom is the sole survivor of his home universe's variant on the human species,...more
C.V. Hunt
I’m usually not one for science fiction, but I have a weakness for apocalyptic fiction. Whether it’s the all-consuming zombie virus, or just the scientific deterioration of the world, I find myself drawn to stories that contain some type of cataclysm. When I read the synopsis for The Last Man On Earth Club, I couldn’t refuse.

Everyone has a theory as to how the world will end, but Paul R. Hardy presents us with six.

Imagine if you can. There are an unlimited amount of parallel universes, with one...more
Frida Fantastic (book blogger)
How would you like your apocalypse served? Zombie? Nuclear? Machine war? Genocide? Combustion into ash? Mass suicide induced by alien energy beings? Well, you get the all-in-one combo with this book.

The Last Man on Earth Club explores the experiences of six apocalypse survivors from six parallel Earths. It’s examined through the therapy sessions run by Dr. Asha Singh, where she treats the survivors recovering on the homeworld of the Interversal Union (IU). The IU is like a multiverse UN where it...more
Kathleen Fischer
THIS is what happens when worlds collide? Therapy? I am a fan of this genre, but this one just didn’t work for me. While I like the idea of using the multiverse as a plot device, I thought there were too many characters (mostly unlikable), and too many worlds to end up with something meaningful. It’s like the author could not decide what he wanted to focus on and just threw it all in to the mix – Genocide? Religion? Homosexuality? Love? Ethics? SUPERHEROES? It’s all there, (and more!) But it got...more
Lindsay Stares
Premise: There are many Earths. Parallel worlds. The Interversal Union is an organization which travels between many of these worlds, and unfortunately one of their largest responsibilities is the relocation of refugees. With so many Earths, there are endless ways for humanity to be killed, or to destroy itself. Asha is a therapist who works for the Refugee Service, and her current assignment is unusual, even for her line of work. She is put in charge of a group therapy project for six individua...more
David King
"The Last Man on Earth Club" by Paul R. Hardy is a thoroughly enjoyable and dark read that should really appeal to anyone who has an interest in apocalyptic scenarios. It isn't a fast paced novel and is quite long but I believe it should hold your attention from start to finish as the various characters stories are slowly revealed.

The premise of the novel is that long distance space flight has been disregarded as impossible and therefore various societies have explored the concept of travelling...more
Sarah (Workaday Reads)
Don't let the length of this book intimidate you. At almost 600 pages, I was definitely intimidated. I kept putting it off thinking it would take a long time to read. But when I picked it up, I read the first third in one sitting, and was surprised when it ended. I wanted more.

For a fan of apocalypse stories, this one gave me the unique view of what happens to people after an apocalypse causes the end of the world. The story revolves around 6 people whose worlds have ended and they are the sole...more
L.E.Olteano
Reading this was a strange and intense experience. It was also a very draining experience for me, because I’m in the very bad habit of getting really into the emotional struggles of characters; this novel is so different, and quite special.

As I’ve said some time before, apocalyptic plots are not something I especially enjoy; nifty ways for my world to end are not necessarily my shade of fun, and that’s how I generally feel about novels that go about one way for the world to end. Paul R. Hardy we...more
Sift Book Reviews
There is something for every kind of sci-fi fan here, from zombies to nuclear holocausts. The survivors in this therapy group have seen it all. There is a lot of darkness in their pasts and that seeps through in most of the book. Having seen some very dark things, the main cast of characters are very dark people who can't seem to get along with each other and are always plagued by internal conflict. This one won't leave you with the warm and fuzzies, but it will leave you thinking, and for me th...more
Pattie
May 02, 2012 Pattie rated it 4 of 5 stars
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I'm a therapist but I don't like books about therapy or mental health issues. I always start picking them apart and feel like I'm at work. Which totally defeats the purpose of a good book in my opinion.
But when I saw this was sci fi mixed with mental health I was intrigued. I mean maybe therapy issues stemming from the loss of someones entire planet would be different. It was! I'm sure you could generalize the losses these clients had to real life traumas and losses someone might experience......more
Maitraya Black


This is by far the most interesting book I've ever read. Six people, all from different universes, sit down to therapy. Why? Because their planets were destroyed and they were the last ones to be found alive!
Henrik Rostoft
This kept my interest the whole way through. Some really interesting looks at apocalypses.
Joel
Really smart well written book about the psyche of people that have lost their worlds and people.
Tracey
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Laure
Jun 09, 2013 Laure marked it as to-read
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Paul Hardy makes corporate videos for a living, and relaxes by writing novels when no one's watching. In the past, he made eighteen short films, won a BBC Drama Award, co-wrote & co-produced an independent SF film called Triple Hit and also wrote Filming on a Microbudget, a guidebook for making short films.
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