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The Last Man

Mary Shelley

Mary Shelley founded modern science fiction with her 1816 classic Frankenstein. A decade later, she inaugurated the subgenre of post-apocalyptic sf with the less-lauded and less-known The Last Man. Shelley used the found-manuscript trope for this book, claiming to have discovered a series of seeming...

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This novel, written about a decade after Byron's poem "Darkness," depicted a pandemic wiping out everyone except one person, which critics at the time harshly condemned as a loathsome idea from a diseased mind.

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And Mary Shelley, who was actually living in the same part of Switzerland as Byron when he was writing Darkness. And in fact, she was coming up with Frankenstein at the same time. When she writes The...

— Episode: Prepping for doomsday

Episode: Prepping for doomsday

This novel, written about a decade after Byron's poem "Darkness," depicted a pandemic wiping out everyone except one person, which critics at the time harshly condemned as a loathsome idea from a diseased mind.

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And Mary Shelley, who was actually living in the same part of Switzerland as Byron when he was writing Darkness. And in fact, she was coming up with Frankenstein at the same time. When she writes The Last Man about a decade later, it's absolutely destroyed by the critics that they think that it is a loathsome idea from the start.

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