Title: The Last Man
Description: Mary Shelley, the author of [*Frankenstein*][1], wrote the apocalyptic novel The Last Man in 1826. Its first person narrative tells the story of our world standing at the end of the twenty-first century and - after the devastating effects of a plague - at the end of humanity. In the book Shelley writes of weaving this story from a discovery of prophetic writings uncovered in a cave near Naples. The Last Man was made into a 2008 film.


  [1]: http://openlibrary.org/works/OL450125W/Frankenstein
Subjects: Fiction, Plague, Twenty-first century, End of the world, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, fantasy, general, Fiction, science fiction, general, English literature, Twenty-first century -- Fiction, End of the world -- Fiction, Plague -- Fiction, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Fiction, general, Science fiction, Epidemics -- Fiction
Time periods: 21st Century