The Last Immortal

The Roiss #2

by J.O. Jeppson

Journey beyond the limits of time and space. Your guide Tec - The Alien Robot with Remarkable Qualities. The Product of a long Dead Civilization in a place lost to time. Your Destination to the other side of a black hole, where the seed of a twin universe to our own is guarded by fantastic Dragon like Apparitions, where a terrifying Drama of Cosmic Creation and devastation is about to explode... where the beginning is the end and the end is the beginning. The Last Immortal will take you beyond everything you know and back again!

Genres: Science Fiction

256 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published February 15, 1980

About the author

Also known as: Janet Jeppson Asimov, Janet O. Jeppson, Janet Asimov, who originally wrote as J.O. Jeppson, is an accomplished novelist and short-story writer who sometimes worked in collaboration with her husband, the late Isaac Asimov. Among the Asimovs' joint ventures as writers is the series of juvenile novels involving an endearing robot, Norby, and his young owner, Jeff Wells.

Reviews

[Gingaeru]

This is meant to be a continuation of "The Second Experiment." The writing here is an improvement. However, Tec feels like a completely different character. And the fates of everyone else from book one are ignored. R'ya, who was integral to the first novel, isn't even mentioned, nor is her offspring; so much for "the Roiiss continue."

Skip chapter 21 if you know what's good for you. Mrs. Asimov really ought to have kept her bizarre sex fantasies to herself. Her obsession with genitals and reproduction is sprinkled throughout the rest of the book, but it's tolerable by comparison. I can't help but wonder if "The Last Immortal" and "The Second Experiment" were simply twisted "love letters" to her husband that just happened to be published.

You'd think a female author would be more likely to write decent female characters. Astrid is no better than Nadine from the first book. Ship isn't the worst, but she's a ship. Unless I'm missing something, the Garch (and the 50 ships they abandoned on Lune) ended up having no purpose, so their inclusion in the story seems odd. The references to Norse mythology felt annoyingly forced and unnecessary.

It had some fun and interesting concepts that made it enjoyable despite its flaws.
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The cover attempts to depict the final scene.
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Typos abound. The worst I've seen to date.
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222 pages, not 256.

6/10.

[Autumn]

Some interesting sci-fi concepts that I'd never heard of before, but also some weirdo perverted stuff. It's not a sexy book by any means, but sometimes I think nerds like to just throw in their strange robot-human-ape threesome fantasies in there because they have no other outlet, or some crap.. LOL Anyway, yeah, that's where he really lost me... Scratch that! SHE! (I guess women can be just as sexually deviant as men.)

Just looked her up. Wikipedia says "Janet Asimov is an American science fiction author, psychiatrist, and a psychoanalyst. Born Janet Opal Jeppson, she started writing children's science fiction under the name J O Jeppson in the 1970s."

Children's sci-fi you say?!

[Twyla]

Do you honestly expect me to believe that hundreds o millions of yeaes pass and they use,the same technology at the end as at the beginning? and still they quote 20th century authors and philosophers and junk like that and have preserved the footprints on the moon. Its just ridiculous. The plot is cold and terrible, the dialogue constrained and plain weird and seriouly the worst sex scenes ever.

[Britt K]

This book was wholesome. My partner and I each got a copy and read it together. Awesome experience!