Bright Futures SCI-FI BOOK CLUB: The Last Man

Bright Futures: Return of the Sci Fi Book Club! Please note our september gathering will be in person at the shop and Greg will be your host.

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Our September meeting of Bright Futures will be discussingo ne of the first dystopian novels ever written, Mary Shelley's The Last Man, which traces the impact of an unstoppable pandemic as it slowly overtakes the world.

Beginning in the year 2073, the story follows Lionel Vesey – the titular last man – and his circle of friends as the disease creeps from continent to continent and erodes the foundations of civilization.

Published in 1826, after the death of Shelley's husband, her stepsister, and her two children, The Last Man is both an eerily accurate story about humanity wrestling with disaster and a moving fable about surviving personal grief.