After The End

In Mary Shelley’s (author of Frankenstein) The Last Man, we find words of a prophecy where the world is again ravaged by a plague. One man has to survive waste, grief and desolation.


Jefferies’ only post-apocalyptic novel relates a story of a world transformed after the collapse of civilisation. How does the country of England fare in this tale?


Finally, MacLean’s fantastic tale of man’s arrival on a paradisal planet. Not quite so uninhabited as he thought. Ugliness lurks.