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	Last Man - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Last Man (German: der letzte Mensch) was a term used by the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche in Thus Spoke Zarathustra, among other works, to describe the antithesis of the imagined superior being, the "Übermensch", whose imminent appearance is heralded by Zarathustra.
		Nietzsche saw that nothing great is possible for the Last Man, and it is Nietzsche's contention that Western civilization (Europe) is moving in the direction of the last man, an apathetic creature, who has no great passion or commitment, who is unable to dream, who merely earns his living and keeps warm.
		With the coming of the last man is the onset of "nihilism", the negation of all values.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Last_Man (355 words)

	The Last Man - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Last Man is an early post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by Mary Shelley, which was first published in 1826.
		The Last Man was written in the period following her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley's death.
		The central character, Lionel Verney, son of a nobleman who gambled himself into poverty, prides himself on his ruggedness and manliness, but eventually is restored to the gentry and educates himself.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Last_Man (328 words)

	Broadview Press: The Last Man
		The Last Man, is a disillusioned vision of the end of civilization, set in the twenty-first century.
		Appendices include material on "the last man" as early nineteenth-century hero, texts from the debate initiated by Malthus in 1798 about the adequacy of food supply to sustain human population, various accounts of outbreaks of plague, and Shelley’s poems representing her feelings after the death of her husband.
		The Last Man reverberates particularly strongly for the late twentieth-century reader, not only because of its millennial overtones but also because of its parallels between the plague that Shelley depicts and the AIDS epidemic of our own time.
	www.broadviewpress.com /bvbooks.asp?BookID=85 (286 words)

	Amazon.com: The Last Man (Oxford World's Classics): Books: Mary Shelley,Morton D. Paley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Man doesn't control his destiny and the whole of mankind is wiped out by the plague.
		"The Last Man" was probably Mary Shelley's least successful work during her lifetime, but today, which the interest in science fiction, as well as the real world threats of biological warfare and other weapons of mass destruction, this idea of how the world ends is quite pertinent.
		In "The Last Man" (1826) Mary Shelley conceived a plot device that would eventually be used by a string of writers: an apocalyptic plague that virtually wipes out the human race.
	www.amazon.com /Last-Man-Oxford-Worlds-Classics/dp/0192838652 (3054 words)

	The Last Man on Earth - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The Last Man on Earth (originally titled L'Ultimo uomo della Terra) is a 1964 film based upon the Richard Matheson novel I Am Legend.
		The plague causes people to turn into "vampires", the living dead, unintelligent and slow creatures that have allergies to garlic, hate mirrors (the sight of their reflection mortifies them), and avoid sunlight.
		Morgan has been alone on Earth for some years and is constantly having to fight for his life and his place as the last man on Earth.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/The_Last_Man_on_Earth (234 words)

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		Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman--a rope over an abyss...
		What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end: what can be loved in man is that he is an overture and a going under...
		His race is as ineradicable as the flea; the last man lives longest.
	www.pitt.edu /~wbcurry/nietzsche/nuber.html (1135 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Last Man: Books: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Although "The Last Man" is dated, it did pave the way for a genre that still fascinates and terrifies readers today.
		Mary Shelley's novel, 'The Last Man' is a work which is slowly gaining the critical attention it richly deserves.
		The Last Man starts with a man telling the story of his life; how he was orphaned at an early age and had to go to work at the age of five(!) and grew up to become a juvenile delinquent with a probable career as a criminal.
	www.amazon.ca /Last-Man-Mary-Wollstonecraft-Shelley/dp/1419168738 (1657 words)

	The Last Man
		Last Man shows a woman in Brooklyn, New York, covered in blood, running down the street, begging for help from anyone who will listen.
		Y: The Last Man #1 is, in short, one of the best-looking books I've seen all year.
		Y: The Last Man has a hell of a lot of potential to be an outstanding series.
	www.scifidimensions.com /Aug02/lastman.htm (1147 words)

	Internet Archive: Details: The Last Man on Earth
		If you want to see this film the only way it should be seen, spend a couple of extra bucks and buy the MGM DVD release, which also includes "Panic in the Year Zero!" on the other side of the disc.
		He finds himself the last living man on earth, the rest of the world having been transformed into a race of vampire-like creatures who want him dead.
		Now, he must spend his nights closed up in his house with a mirror, a cross and a few cloves of garlic on the front door, and his days searching for the creatures' hide-outs in order to drive stakes through their hearts.
	www.archive.org /details/the-last-man-on-earth (741 words)

	The Last Man - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Mary Shelley's The Last Man, first published in 1826, is often overshadowed by one of Shelley's earlier works, Frankenstein, and as a result has been largely ignored by the reading public.
		This is by some believed to be a great loss as it is in some ways as great a work as its illustrious and much filmed and parodied predecessor.
		Central to the book's philosophical approach is a rejection of the romanticism of Lord Byron, whom she knew well, and her late husband.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/The_Last_Man (273 words)

	J. Schuetz: Mary Shelley's The Last Man
		With the death of her husband, and through her annotations to his poetical works, it appears as though Mary Shelley was attempting to recuperate the masculine idealism of her husband in order to reconcile it with domestic, communal comfort.
		The Last Man has been commonly believed to be a roman a clef, and it seems as though through the literary creation of the characters Mary Shelley is attempting to bring back the friends and loved ones that she had lost in life.
		For the will of man is omnipotent, blunting the arrows of death, soothing the bed of disease, and wiping away the tears of agony.
	prometheus.cc.emory.edu /panels/4A/J.Schuetz.html (3073 words)

	The Glorious Cause. A Ballantine book
		Published in November, 2004, TO THE LAST MAN, deals with one of the most tragic events in world history: the First World War.
		With the energy, resources and enthusiasm of the American army poured into the last great struggles of the war, their sacrifice and extraordinary heroism finally bring one of mankind's most horrific chapters to a conclusion.
		As with Jeff's earlier books, this story is told from the points of view of a number of key characters, some well-known, some unknown, from the generals to the doughboys, from the flying aces to the politicians.
	jeffshaara.com /lastman.html (212 words)

	Last man standing - Salon
		On this dark day, disguised as a woman to keep himself from being torn to bits by rabid Amazons and sex-starved survivors, he's joined a crowd of his sisters in front of the Washington Monument, which has become a de facto shrine to America's lost brothers, sons and husbands.
		Not knowing what to do with his life, he's adopted a monkey -- yes, a monkey -- and bought an engagement ring he can't afford, and right before the end of the world as we know it, he's on the phone with his blond-bombshell girlfriend Beth in Australia, amping up to propose to her.
		Whether or not "Y: The Last Man" is a top-level comic book is a question best left to the aficionados, and I've tangled with enough of them to know they're an even more lethal breed of hairsplitters than indie-rock critics.
	dir.salon.com /story/mwt/feature/2003/07/21/yorick/index.html (861 words)

	Indie911 :: Last Man Standing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The Last Man Standing is an autonomous unit of modest musicians that have been reared on pop culture from the late 70’s to present day.
		Like many such bands, LMS soon came to the conclusion that reinvention of the stuff that influenced at such an early age would provide the back bone of their musical direction.
		The Last Man Standing have signed to Liquid State Records...
	www.indie911.com /index.php?cID=13877 (307 words)

	Romanticism On the Net 11 (August 1998) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		McWhir's edition of The Last Man (1826), the first novel Mary Shelley wrote on her return to England, fully recognizes and foregrounds the crucial importance of the author's expressed aims in writing the novel: 'making the scene universal to all mankind and of combining this with a peculiar interest' (MWS Letters, I: 510).
		Pointing out that Shakespeare addressed his poem to a beautiful young man, McWhir links this quotation to her observations about gender, suggesting that the dead Evadne, disguised in man's attire as a soldier 'is a version of the young man of the sonnets, no longer young and transformed into a woman.
		The rhetoric of the novel forces us to accede to the proposition that Verney is indeed the Last Man, but we are not forced to agree that he is the last human being, unless we too collude with him and identify 'The Last Man' with 'The Last Person'.
	www.erudit.org /revue/ron/1998/v/n11/005807ar.html (4639 words)

	The Last Man
		The vast majority of post-apocalyptic tales are grim, serious dramas concentrating on the scrape for survival among the wretched, desperate remainder of humanity.
		The Last Man, however, takes a considerably lighter approach, using the opportunity to put the classic love triangle under the microsope.
		As it is, The Last Man is a funny, thought-provoking film, and an ideal movie for a group viewing-followed-by-discussion.
	www.scifidimensions.com /Sep02/lastman.htm (454 words)

	Archived Entry - 05/31/2004: "Graphic Novel Review: "Y, The Last Man"" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Interestingly and unlike "Y, The Last Man", the world after the White Plague did not devolve into savagery presumably because there were still enough men at the tiller or something.
		Also along these "last man" lines is Harlan Ellison's "A Boy and his Dog" (ISBN 1883398479), of which I've only seen the film (ASIN B0000C825J).
		I'm well aware that "Y, The Last Man" is fiction, science or speculative fiction at that and not fantasy, which is why I am about to pick the science in it apart.
	liheliso.com /buzz/archive/00000104.htm (4710 words)

	Footnote Comics : Y The Last Man (Brian K. Vaughan, Pia Guerra)
		The phrase "crossing the Rubicon" describes an irrevocable commitment to a dangerous course of action, and the phrase refers to Julius Caesar's decision in 49 BC to go with his army across the Rubicon, a small river in northern Italy.
		According to Plutarch's biographical sketch of the Roman leader, Caesar hesitated before crossing the Rubicon as he "considered the greatness of the enterprise into which he was throwing himself" and "comput[ed] how many calamities his passing that river would bring upon mankind, and what a relation of it would be transmitted to posterity.
		At last, in a sort of passion, casting aside calculation, and abandoning himself to what might come, and using the proverb frequently in their mouths who enter upon dangerous and bold attempts, 'The die is cast," with these words he took the river."
	www.newsaic.com /fncylastmanindex.html (7424 words)

	To the Last Man
		His next project after To the Last Man will focus on the Korean War, another conflict that Americans tend to overlook.
		Shaara, however, crafts his story around historical figures and conducts meticulous research into the lives of those characters and the history of their times before he writes a word.
		When he has one of his characters speak - General Pershing in To the Last Man, for example - he does so only when he is confident that the dialogue is realistic.
	www.military.com /NewContent/0,13190,020105_Last_Man,00.html (773 words)

	Modern History Sourcebook: Mary Shelley (1797-1851): The Last Man (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The Last Man was written as an expression of her, grief after Shelley's death in 1822.
		My lovely Clara also was lost to me-she who last of the daughters of man, exhibited all those feminine and maiden virtues, which poets, painters, and sculptors, have in their various languages strove to express.
		But her heart was the throne of love, and the sensibility her lovely countenance expressed, was the prophet of many woes, not the less deep and drear, because she would have for ever concealed them.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/mod/1822shelley.html (1336 words)

	The Last Man by Mary Shelley
		With great volubility, in their native Neapolitan dialect, with which we were not very familiar, they told us that there were spectres, that the roof would fall in, that it was too narrow to admit us, that there was a deep hole within, filled with water, and we might be drowned.
		I confess, that I have not been unmoved by the development of the tale; and that I have been depressed, nay, agonized, at some parts of the recital, which I have faithfully transcribed from my materials.
		Yet such is human nature, that the excitement of mind was dear to me, and that the imagination, painter of tempest and earthquake, or, worse, the stormy and ruin-fraught passions of man, softened my real sorrows and endless regrets, by clothing these fictitious ones in that ideality, which takes the mortal sting from pain.
	www.classicauthors.net /Shelley/lastman (1552 words)

	The Last Man Against Time (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		And nothing shows more clearly how aware he was of his own place and significance in history than the words he addressed Hans Grimm in 1928, in the course of a conversation that lasted an hour and a quarter: "I know that some man capable of giving our problems a final solution must appear.
		For the protection of the good, for the destruction of the evil-doers, for the sake of firmly establishing righteousness, I am born in age after age.
		They are the bridge to supermanhood, of which Nietzsche has spoken; the last battalion, in which Adolf Hitler has put his confidence.
	library.flawlesslogic.com /litsun_4.htm (1057 words)

	The Last Man
		Chapter 1.1 THE LAST MAN. CHAPTER I. Chapter 1.2 CHAPTER II.
		Chapter 2.1 THE LAST MAN. CHAPTER I. Chapter 2.2 CHAPTER II.
		Chapter 3.1 THE LAST MAN. CHAPTER I. Chapter 3.2 CHAPTER II.
	etext.lib.virginia.edu /toc/modeng/public/SheLast.html (57 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Last Man: Books: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley,Hugh J. Luke,Anne Kostelanetz Mellor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		"Anne McWhir’s edition of The Last Man is first rate...Shelley herself would have been pleased!" --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
		Mary Shelley’s third published novel, The Last Man, is a disillusioned vision of the end of civilization, set in the twenty-first century.
		"The Last Man" was written in the period following her husband Percy Shelley's death.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Last-Man-Mary-Wollstonecraft-Shelley/dp/0803292171 (1712 words)

	eBay - the last man, Comics, DVD, HD DVD Blu-ray items on eBay.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Y The Last Man #6 - DC Vertigo
		The Last Innocent Man by Phillip Margolin (1995)
		Captain Savage #10 NM- 9.2 TO THE LAST* MAN*
	search-desc.ebay.com /search/search.dll?query=the+last+man&newu=1&krd=1 (544 words)

	Stomp Tokyo Video Reviews - The Last Man on Planet Earth (1999)
		The Last Man on Planet Earth takes place on our planet after women have somehow wiped out all of the men.
		But Kara is one smart chick, so she quickly realizes that no one ever said the renegade man's name is Adam.
		Last Man on Planet Earth is such a by-the-numbers movie that we conjured up images of the writer and director poring over a Paramount "How to Make a Star Trek Episode" manual.
	www.stomptokyo.com /movies/l/last-man-on-planet-earth.html (1269 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		In the summer of 2002, a plague of unknown origin destroys every last sperm, fetus, and fully developed mammal with a Y chromosome - with the exception of amateur escape artist Yorick Brown and his surly male helper monkey Ampersand.
		Introduced in a super-sized 40 page first issue, this new ongoing VERTIGO adventure series is brought to you by writer Brian K. Vaughan (SWAMP THING, The Hood), up-and-coming artist Pia Guerra and acclaimed inker José Marzan, Jr, with striking painted covers by J.G. Jones (WONDER WOMAN: THE HIKETEIA, Marvel Boy).
		Y — THE LAST MAN is ™ and © 2002 Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra.
	www.dccomics.com /features/Ylastman (225 words)

	Boing Boing: New "Y: The Last Man" collection
		Back in 2003, I blogged about the must-read comic book/graphic novel series "Y: The Last Man." Yesterday I picked up the fifth collection in the series, Ring of Truth, and read the whole thing on the way home on the tube.
		The plot of Y: The Last Man is a pretty straightforward apocalyptic tale: one day, every man on earth drops dead, blood gushing from their noses and mouths, leaving no one behind but women, and one man, and one male monkey (his pet -- a helper monkey he's been training).
		Javier sez, "The first issue of 'Y: The Last Man' is available as a PDF file from the
	www.boingboing.net /2005/09/17/new_y_the_last_man_c.html (289 words)

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