The Last Human: A riveting young adult space opera
Zack Jordan
Mar 2020 · Hodderscape · Narrated by Patricia Rodriguez
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Sarya Vald is the galaxy's worst nightmare: a Human.
Fortunately, she's the last one. Adopted and raised by the alien Senya, a terrifying sentient spider-like species known as a Widow, Sarya has lived on a space station her entire life, keeping her identity as a human secret even as she puzzles over the impossible questions behind her own existence.
1) How it is that she, and she alone, is the sole survivor of a race that was supposedly wiped out centuries ago?
2)What mysterious force could wipe out four trillion people in a single Galactic year, while making each death look like an accident?
3) What made the Humans so special - or so frightening - that they warranted such treatment?
When the station's central intelligence, a grumpy AI named ELLIE, discovers the truth about Sarya's origins, she's forced to flee, a step ahead of rioting inhabitants and vicious enforcers. Together with a band of misfits and cutthroats, Sarya makes for the depths of space aboard a stolen ship, in desperate search of the truth behind her existence.
What she discovers is that humanity's death was but one chess move in a war played out across light-years and centuries, by beings with minds so vast and alien that they might as well be gods. If Sarya is going to be more than just a pawn in their game and have a chance at saving humanity's future, she herself will have to become something greater, and more alien, than she ever imagined.
(P) 2020 Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
Fortunately, she's the last one. Adopted and raised by the alien Senya, a terrifying sentient spider-like species known as a Widow, Sarya has lived on a space station her entire life, keeping her identity as a human secret even as she puzzles over the impossible questions behind her own existence.
1) How it is that she, and she alone, is the sole survivor of a race that was supposedly wiped out centuries ago?
2)What mysterious force could wipe out four trillion people in a single Galactic year, while making each death look like an accident?
3) What made the Humans so special - or so frightening - that they warranted such treatment?
When the station's central intelligence, a grumpy AI named ELLIE, discovers the truth about Sarya's origins, she's forced to flee, a step ahead of rioting inhabitants and vicious enforcers. Together with a band of misfits and cutthroats, Sarya makes for the depths of space aboard a stolen ship, in desperate search of the truth behind her existence.
What she discovers is that humanity's death was but one chess move in a war played out across light-years and centuries, by beings with minds so vast and alien that they might as well be gods. If Sarya is going to be more than just a pawn in their game and have a chance at saving humanity's future, she herself will have to become something greater, and more alien, than she ever imagined.
(P) 2020 Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
About the author
Zack Jordan is from Chicago, and has an ardent and burning love for literature, music, and robots. He writes music, stories, games, and everything else he can think of. The Last Human is his debut novel.
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