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
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Aliens, adventure, mystery, and big ideas in a thoroughly fresh package
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The Last Human delivers characters who spring from the page with empathy, danger, cryptic motives and chills, all of it amid plenty of action and mystery, in a galaxy of wondrous possibilities
The Last Human is a very funny novel, full of compelling ideas, engaging dialogue and fascinating species and technology, and we hope to see more of the galaxy Jordan has created
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