He sets a clear goal for the story and charges ahead until all the questions are answered and obstacles overcome. Foster gets down to business right away, laying out the history that led humanity to its demise and leading right into the major dramatic question Ruslan faces. The plot runs on the kind of motor an experienced hand can build: efficient and engrossing in a seemingly effortless way. Eventually, he strikes a deal with the Myssari: He will let them use their cloning technology to restore the human race, if they agree to help him find the location of the human home world, which had long ago been lost to history.įoster writes with an easy confidence one would expect from someone who has written more than a hundred novels and novelizations in a career than will soon span half a century. The problem is, Ruslan isn’t sure the human race deserves to exist anymore, and he certainly doesn’t want to be its new progenitor. Both want to reseed humanity, and while the Myssari appear to have benevolent intentions, the Vrizan’s motives are more uncertain. Now, the various alien species who populate the rest of the galaxy are moving in to claim the territories the nearly extinct human civilization left behind, and the discovery of any remaining humans becomes a political football between two of the expanding groups: the aforementioned Myssari and the more aggressive Vrizan. The worst part is, the virus was engineered by humans as a kind of doomsday weapon, which, it would appear, lived up to its billing. Ruslan is found by the alien Myssari, wandering the crumbling wasteland of his home planet Seraboth after a super virus called the Aura Malignance wiped out all other human life from every human occupied system in the galaxy.
In Alan Dean Foster’s new novel, Relic, there is only one known human left in the universe. The worst part is, the virus was engineered by humans as a kind of doomsday weapon, which, it would appear, lived up to Originally posted at. "Foster's sympathetic novel successfully surveys human frailty, the tendency not to learn from history, and an enduring capacity for adaptation and emotional attachment." -Publishers Weekly. A true first contact novel on many different levels." - Library Journal "The stunning plot of Foster's stand-alone novel will intrigue readers for not only the 'last man in the universe' trope but also the well-developed alien species. The plot spans galaxies!" -Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Greg Bear With Alan Dean Foster's trademark invention in both the psychology and physiology of his aliens, he also enriches the narrative with their complex cultures. " Relic is a thrilling and thoughtful epic. Thus begins an epic journey of adventure, danger, heartbreak, and hope, as Ruslan sets out in search of a place that may no longer exist-drawn by the slimmest yet most enduring hope. But then the Myssari make Ruslan an extraordinary offer: In exchange for his cooperation, they will do everything in their considerable power to find the lost home world of his species-an all-but-mythical place called Earth-and, perhaps, another living human.
Though the Myssari are determined to resurrect the human race, using Ruslan's genetic material, all he wants for himself and his species is oblivion. Rescued from the charnel house of his home planet by the Myssari-an intelligent alien race-Ruslan spends his days as something of a cross between a research subject and a zoo attraction. That man is Ruslan, the sole known surviving human being in the universe. As had happened many times before, the basest, most primal human instincts rose up, only this time armed with the advanced scientific knowledge to create a genetically engineered smart virus that quickly wiped out humanity to the last man. Once Homo sapiens reigned supreme, spreading from star system to star system in an empire that encountered no alien life and thus knew no enemy.
As had happened many times before, the basest, most primal human inst The last known human searches the galaxy for companionship in a brilliant standalone novel from the legendary author of the Pip & Flinx series. The last known human searches the galaxy for companionship in a brilliant standalone novel from the legendary author of the Pip & Flinx series.
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