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3 unusual facts about Last Human


Last Human

It is part of the Red Dwarf series of novels, based on the popular television show created by Naylor and his partner Rob Grant.

Following publication of Last Human, Rob Grant also wrote a solo Red Dwarf novel, entitled Backwards.

The Earth World President, John Milhous Nixon has learned that thermonuclear tests conducted too close to the surface of the sun have fatally weakened the star's structure, thus causing an eventual decay that will see the entire solar system die in four hundred thousand years - which will be very bad for the economy, and Nixon's re-election prospects.



see also

Atavar

Atavar is a 2000 AD comic strip, created by Dan Abnett and Richard Elson about the last human alive caught in a war between alien species.

David Markson

The novel is mainly a series of statements made in the first person; the protagonist is a woman who believes herself to be the last human on earth.