M. P. Shiel ~6 hr read

The first man to reach the North Pole comes back to find a cloud of purple vapor has swept the Earth and killed every living soul, and Adam Jeffson may be the last man alive in all the world.

M. P. Shiel's 1901 novel is a landmark masterpiece of apocalyptic fiction. Visionary, feverish, unforgettable. Read it for one of the great last-man stories ever written, a lone survivor wandering a beautiful, poisoned, empty world, in a hallucinatory epic of grandeur, madness, and desolation.

In its time

Published in 1901, during the 1900s, the scientific romance.

Reading it

~6 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).