The Last Man

This summer, I’ve been tasked with writing a story based on the works of Mary Shelley. I’ve long been a fan of her 1818 novel Frankenstein, but I have to admit, I wasn’t terribly familiar with her other works. After some searching, I decided to dive into her 1826 novel The Last Man, which introduced some concepts that would become more commonplace in later science fiction. The Last Man is, in effect, a post-apocalyptic novel set in the late twenty-first century between the years 2073 and 2100.

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