Alex Kirk awakens a million years from now, utterly alone and in terrible danger on a brave new Earth. This is an entirely fresh and original novel, which innovatively evokes and builds upon Defoe's literary classic.
Mankind has been extinct for eons, and Alex Kirk is marooned like no human ever before--not just in space, but in time. Nobody has ever been so alone, nor ever will be again.
Alex is the last of his kind, an afterthought of evolution or fate, and now he must either perish or conquer this world and its many mysteries.
Earth in 1,000,000 A.D. is a planet of surprises, from huge saltwater flowers and the giant butterflies that pollinate them, to the sinister and deadly rippers that lurk hour after hour waiting for Alex to make a single mistake so they can devour him.
And there is much more in this scary new world: living caves; armed and marauding aftermen; a haunted village of long-dead clone men and women; a valley formed when an ancient university crumbled and its experimental laboratories fissured, with a swift-flowing river between them. It is a valley littered with skulls, picked over by rippers and other un-things in the long afterglow of old earth.
One day, solitary, lonely Alex sees a curious smudge in space, beside the moon. He will discover it encapsulates the secret of what happened to mankind, as well as the key to his own fate.
Starting alone and with nothing except his fierce will to survive, Alex courageously explores, battles, and conquers. He ultimately confronts the enigma of who he is and why the ancient humans left him shipwrecked and alone in eternity.
Is there a woman-Friday to relieve what would otherwise be a nightmare existence for Alex Kirk? Read this novel and learn the answer. Hint: "strawberry ice cream."
Critics have praised Robinson Crusoe 1,000,000 A.D. as a modern classic in the tradition of Defoe#x2019;s original, which in itself could easily be classified as the world#x2019;s first modern science-fiction novel.
Alex Kirk awakens a million years from now, utterly alone and in terrible danger on a brave new Earth. This is an entirely fresh and original novel, which innovatively evokes and builds upon Defoe's literary classic.
Mankind has been extinct for eons, and Alex Kirk is marooned like no human ever before--not just in space, but in time. Nobody has ever been so alone, nor ever will be again.
Alex is the last of his kind, an afterthought of evolution or fate, and now he must either perish or conquer this world and its many mysteries.
Earth in 1,000,000 A.D. is a planet of surprises, from huge saltwater flowers and the giant butterflies that pollinate them, to the sinister and deadly rippers that lurk hour after hour waiting for Alex to make a single mistake so they can devour him.
And there is much more in this scary new world: living caves; armed and marauding aftermen; a haunted village of long-dead clone men and women; a valley formed when an ancient university crumbled and its experimental laboratories fissured, with a swift-flowing river between them. It is a valley littered with skulls, picked over by rippers and other un-things in the long afterglow of old earth.
One day, solitary, lonely Alex sees a curious smudge in space, beside the moon. He will discover it encapsulates the secret of what happened to mankind, as well as the key to his own fate.
Starting alone and with nothing except his fierce will to survive, Alex courageously explores, battles, and conquers. He ultimately confronts the enigma of who he is and why the ancient humans left him shipwrecked and alone in eternity.
Is there a woman-Friday to relieve what would otherwise be a nightmare existence for Alex Kirk? Read this novel and learn the answer. Hint: "strawberry ice cream."
Critics have praised Robinson Crusoe 1,000,000 A.D. as a modern classic in the tradition of Defoe#x2019;s original, which in itself could easily be classified as the world#x2019;s first modern science-fiction novel.