![]() ![]() ![]() Her animal uniqueness may, as in tales of this sort, be a key to setting things right. Sarya is smart, but the levels of Intelligence revealed (or half-revealed) by the civilizations of the galaxy are persuasively rendered by Jordan as being beyond her comprehension. ![]() Sarya is soon swept into an Faster-Than-Light-enabled Fantastic Voyage through various extremely complex, high-baroque Space Opera venues, encountering vast Starships on missions, group minds (see Hive Minds), a few species perceptible as experiencing Transcendence, Living Worlds and much else. Editions for The Last Human: 0451499816 (Hardcover published in 2020), 0451499824 (Paperback published in 2021), (Kindle Edition published in 2020), (Kin. Zack Jordan’s debut novel is a highly accomplished postmodern space opera that manages to adroitly blend the SF humor of Robert Sheckley and Douglas Adams with the pathos of Simon Jimenez ( The Vanished Birds ) and the state-of-the-art high-tech. ![]() In his first novel, The Last Human ( 2020), which is set seemingly millennia hence, a young human is raised by a spiderlike being on a Space Habitat in orbit around a gas planet very far from Earth young Sarya the Daughter is in fact the last human (see Last Man) alive, homo sapiens having been destroyed by galaxy-wide consensus, because we are incapable of controlling our greed and aggression. The Last Human, Zack Jordan (Del Rey 978-0451499813, 27.00 448pp, hardcover) March 2020. (? - ) US Videogame creator, singer/songwriter and author who has released games and music as U S Killbotics. ![]()
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