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The Last Human

(2020)
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'Aliens, adventure, mystery, and big ideas in a thoroughly fresh package' Andy Weir, author of The Martian

Sarya is the galaxy's worst nightmare: a Human.


But most days, she doesn't feel like the most terrifying creature in the galaxy. No, most days, she's got other things on her mind. Like hiding her identity among the hundreds of alien species roaming the corridors of Watertower Station. Or making sure her adoptive mother doesn't casually eviscerate one of their neighbors. Again.

And most days, she can almost accept that she'll never know the truth about why humanity was deemed too dangerous to exist, or whether she really is - impossibly - the lone survivors of a species destroyed a millennium ago. That is, until an encounter with a bounty hunter leaves her life and her perspective shattered.

Thrown into the universe at the helm of a stolen ship, Sarya begins to uncover an impossible truth. Humanity's death and her own existence might simply be two moves in a demented cosmic game, one that might offer the thing she wants most in the universe - a second chance for herself, and one for humanity.

'Easily the most fun read I've had all year' Clint McElroy, co-author of The Adventure Zone
Genre: Science Fiction

Praise for this book

"If it’s strange-realistic alien perspectives that you seek, The Last Human delivers characters who spring from the page with empathy, danger, cryptic motives, and chills, all of it amid plenty of action and mystery, in a galaxy of wondrous possibilities." - David Brin

"Brimming with sly humor, intelligence, and big ideas." - Sue Burke

"The Last Human had me at every page. An epic, galaxy-spanning story of intelligence vs superintelligence, set in maybe the greatest sci-fi universe I’ve seen in years." - Peter Clines

"A wryly funny space opera whose page-turner pace is driven by smart world building, a bold moral calculus, and innovative but weirdly relatable characters. Highly recommended—this is a trip you want to take." - Scott Hawkins

"A work of absolutely reckless imagination. The Last Human is a funny, moving, wildly entertaining space opera about life, the universe, and everything." - Elan Mastai

"One of the best SF books I’ve read in a long time." - Dennis E Taylor

"Aliens, adventure, mystery, and big ideas in a thoroughly fresh package." - Andy Weir


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