The Last Man On Earth
Synopses of novels, short stories, and films relating to the genre.
1/24/11
Flight To Forever, Poul Anderson, 1950
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Anderson’s classic story of one-way time travel. You can go forward but not all the way backwards, and the stalwart 1950s protagonist, Mart...
1/19/11
Nietzsche and
der letzte Mensch
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There has always beena contradiction in Nietzsche as he propounds both the notion of The Last Man ( d er letzte Mensch ) and the doctrine of...
1/9/11
The Twilight Zone, "The Mind and The Matter," 1961
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Archibald Beechcroft hates the crowded modern world, finally working up to expressing the desire to wipe out all of humanity except for hims...
The Twilight Zone, "Where Is Everyboby?" 1959
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A lone man dressed in an Air Force jumpsuit wanders into a deserted town. Music blares in the nearby cafe. He fixes himself something to eat...
1/5/11
The Underdweller, William F. Nolan, 1957
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Lewis Stillman loots the convenience stores of Los Angeles at night, creeping past and hiding from small gangs of inhuman enemies: “They cam...
Curtis and The Last Man On Earth
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The rather innocuous daily newspaper comic strip Curtis is using a wish-granting mouse to explore the old saw that peace on Earth is only c...
1/3/11
The Twilight Zone, "Two," 1961
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Another heavy-handed Cold War parable from The Twilight Zone . Wikipedia already contains a fine synopsis. While it is never specified that...
"Two," John Christopher, 1952
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Protagonist has traveled the world looking for signs of life in major cities, only to find them empty. Everyone else is dead of radiation po...
9/10/10
Yo Dawg!
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7/6/10
Forever, Damon Knight, 1981
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In 1887, the secret of immortality is discovered and administered to the Gerd Essenwien, the 12-year-old son of the discoverer. It becomes a...
1/15/10
Last Man, Jon Inouye, 1976
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Overpopulation is solved by the systematic extermination of women and heterosexual men. Three hundred years later, a male homosexual culture...
1/13/10
The Last Man, Seabury Quinn, 1950
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The story begins with Roger Mycroft, a veteran of the Spanish-American War, visiting Monsieur Toussaint, a voodoo spiritualist who purports ...
5/28/09
The Long Loud Silence (revised), Wilson Tucker, Lancer, 1969
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3/29/09
Empty World, John Christopher, Dutton, 1986
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The Disappearence, Philip Wylie, Cardinal, 1952
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The Lan Man On Earth, anthology, Fawcett Crest, 1984
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3/28/09
Earth Abides, Fawcett Crest, 1983
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3/25/09
Review of Stewart and Shiel
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The SF Site does a tandem review of M. P. Shiel's The Purple Cloud and George R. Stewart's The Earth Abides . Link
3/19/09
The Long, Loud Silence, Wilson Tucker, 1952
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World Without Men, Eric Charles Maine, 1958
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It's five thousand years in the future and the Earth is populated with only women. "There was one all-important project that suppli...
3/13/09
Nietzsche and The Last Man
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A few sources have used the term "Last Man" in ways unrelated to the genre fiction concept. One is Friedrich Nietzsche and his con...
10/17/08
Last Man On Earth, Brendon Day, 2002
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A heavily workshopped short story set in the 1950s that echoes elements of Confessions of a Crap Artist by Philip K. Dick and William Gibso...
The Purple Cloud covers
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10/15/08
Z For Zachariah covers
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6/26/08
The Custodian, William Tenn, 1955
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After scientists discover that the sun will go nova in a hundred years, humanity divides into two warring sect, The Affirmers and The Custod...
5,271,009, Alfred Bester, 1954
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During a session of drug-induced psychoanalysis, the protagonist wills himself into different ideal scenarios that reveal themselves to be l...
6/10/08
Def: Shaggy God Story
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The lead in that I wrote for the Wikipedia entry. Shaggy God story A Shaggy God story is a minor science fiction genre characterized by an a...
The Tale of the Last Man, Richard Shaver (1946)
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Gradual winnowing of the population through sterility has resulted in the last man on Earth. He is elderly and lonely and much of the story ...
The Last Man, Adam Nemett, 2006
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A short, confusing story of a college campus cut-off by the rising waters of a worldwide flood. Leadership during the crisis is seized by a ...
6/3/08
Adam and No Eve, Alfred Bester, 1941
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Black as night. Stephen Krane develops a catalyst that induces iron into "atomic disintegration" uses it to power a rocket. Despit...
Possible Title
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You're Only Free When Everyone Else Is Dead: The Last Man on Earth in Literature and Film
4/29/08
The World The Flesh and The Devil on TCM
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Turner Classic Movies is showing The World, The Flesh, and The Devil on May 9th at 9:45pm EST. Never released on DVD in the US, I've on...
3/24/08
Gendercide
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via wikipedia : Gendercide is a neologism that refers to the systematic killing of members of a specific sex, either males or females. In sc...
3/4/08
More Apocalypse Kitsch
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From Zazzle. A fine encapsulation of the ideas behind The Last MAN on Earth subcategory, even down to the dramatic capitalization. Standard ...
Metafilter: "Last Man on Earth" Stories? thread
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link Sadly, most of them are not Last Man stories at all. Main things to investigate: There was a short-short in Omni some years back, and I...
2/28/08
Silver Age Yorick
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Spoof of Y: The Last Man , casting it as a rip-off of an obscure Silver Age girl's romance comics. Fantastic. Unsurprisingly, the writer...
2/19/08
Notes Toward Zombie Popularity
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While the vampire (especially the gothic mode) is a study in the repulsion/attraction dynamic the modern world feels toward hereditary arist...
2/18/08
Reason Articles on Zombies and Politics
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We the Living Dead The convoluted politics of zombie cinema Tim Cavanaugh | February 2007 It’s vain to argue that zombie politics don’t lean...
1/4/08
Daily Mail Article
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What would it be like to be the last person on Earth? Boing Boing post about Daily Mail article with a few comments by me under the SugarFr...
11/20/07
Discussion Thread on Frederic Brown's "Knock"
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everything2.com wikipedia "The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door..."
10/9/07
Apocalypse Kitsch
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The Last Man On Earth T-Shirt, for sale at Frankenstein's Attic . T-Shirt logo is based on the 1964 Vincent price adaption of I Am Legen...
10/3/07
Article: New York Magazine
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The End of the World As They Know It What do Christian millenarians, jihadists, Ivy League professors, and baby-boomers have in common? They...
Article: Twenty ways the world could end suddenly
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Discover Magazine, October 2000
Wikipedia Links
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End of Civilization Human Extinction
An Eschatological Taxonomy
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Jamais Casico creates a "Richter" scale for disaster. Link
9/11/07
Quote
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"Even with nobody left, hell is still other people." Richard Harlan Smith Package insert for the DVD release of The Quiet Earth .
7/30/07
Themes: Unaffected Pockets
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Last "Men" survive through luck (or no reason), immunity, or physical protection from the destroying element. One theme is the una...
Bibliography: The Last Man Alive
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The Last Man Alive Alexander Sutherland Neill 1939 Entire work online. A. S. Neill on Wikipedia
7/19/07
Kathi Maio Paper
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Post-Apocalyptic Love Triangles, And Other Things That Won't Fit on a T-Shirt Kathi Maio The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Ju...
James Sallis Review: Earth Abides
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Review: Earth Abides James Sallis Boston Globe
7/13/07
Time Magazine review: The World, The Flesh and The Devil (1959)
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Monday, Jun. 01, 1959 The World, The Flesh and The Devil (MGM) is a passionately sincere, pictorially brilliant, monumentally silly example...
Survival scenarios paper
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Surviving Armageddon: Beyond the Imagination of Disaster Mick Broderick Science Fiction Studies #61 = Volume 20, Part 3 = November 1993
7/9/07
Online Dating Persona Test
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The Last Man on Earth Shit, rejected again. You are The Last Man on Earth. Sorry, but most women would rather see the human species wither t...
"The Last Man on Earth" Brendan Day
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Published in Polyphony 2 , Wheatland Press, 2002 Tangent Short Fiction Review Polyphony 2 ends with Brendan Day 's first story about th...
Time Magazine review of Alfred Noyes "The Last Man" (aka "No Other Man")
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Apocalypse, Pugnacity No OTHER MAN—Alfred Noyes—Stokes ($2.50). THE TWENTY-FIFTH HOUR—Herbert Best—Random House ($2.50). ATTACK—Leland Jamie...
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6/13/07
Will it, can it be as bad as "I, Robot"?
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10/18/06
Top Five Tips for The Last Man on Earth
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1. Arm yourself. In all probability you are not alone. Handguns for now. 2. Look around, cautiously. Do the best you can to determine what k...
10/17/06
Bibliography: Newman, Kim
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"I think the appeal is getting rid of all the boring people in the world. One of the few films that plays with the actual wish-fulfillm...
10/9/06
Bibliography: Brians, Paul
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Brians, Paul. Nuclear Holocausts: Atomic War in Fiction, 1895-1984 . Shaggy God "An important subcategory of the post-holocaust love st...
10/2/06
Sub-Categories Ordered by Degree of Concept
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1st Order The main character is the last living example of homo sapiens on a world devoid of other sentience, either terrestrial, extra-ter...
10/1/06
Common Plot Structures
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Last Man stories can be organized into a number of sub-categories based on how the Last Man concept or situation is conceived and used in th...
9/26/06
Bibliography: The Last Man on Earth (anth.)
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Asimov, Isaac, Martin H. Greenberg, and Charles G. Waugh (eds). The Last Man on Earth . New York: Fawcett, 1982 The New Reality • (1950) nov...
9/22/06
Bibliography: Millay
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Lament Edna St. Vincent Millay Listen, children: Your father is dead. From his old coats I'll make you little jackets; I'll make you...
Bibliography: Newman, Kim
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Newman, Kim. Apocalypse Movies: End of the World Cinema . New York: St. Martin’s, 2000. UK edition: Millennium Movies: End of the Wor...
9/20/06
Genre Defintion
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Last Man stories are a sub-set of the Post-Apocalypse/ Post-Holocaust genre whose narratives feature a main character who believes that they...
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