#4242

Mentioned in 14 episodes

Y the Last Man

Book • 2002

Brian K. Vaughan

The series follows Yorick Brown and his monkey Ampersand as they navigate a world where all male mammals have died.

Yorick's mother, a U.S.

Representative, commissions Agent 355 to protect Yorick as they travel to meet Dr. Allison Mann, a geneticist working to discover why Yorick survived and how to save humanity.

The story explores themes of survival, identity, and the future of humanity in a world without men.

Mentioned by

Vejas Liulevicius

Thomas Moynihan

Mentioned in 14 episodes

Mentioned by

Vejas Liulevicius

when discussing the Great Terror and collectivization.

#444 – Vejas Liulevicius: Communism, Marxism, Nazism, Stalin, Mao, and Hitler

Mentioned by

Dorian Lynskey

as one of the first secular narratives about the end of the world, alongside Lord Byron's "Darkness."

Prepping for doomsday

Mentioned by

Thomas Moynihan

as an example of imagining humanity going extinct via a pandemic.

The Limitless Future w/ Thomas Moynihan

Mentioned by

Maria Popova

when describing a novel that eerily prefigured a modern pandemic and influenced her engagement with Mary Shelley's broader work.

Maria Popova on Turning Matter Into Meaning

Mentioned by

Émile Torres

as an early example of a book exploring the concept of human extinction.

Is the End Nigh? | Émile Torres

Mentioned by

Charles Liu

as an apocalyptic novel by Mary Shelley about a pandemic that kills most of the population.

The Science of Godzilla, Zombies & Other Monsters, with Charles Liu

Mencionado como una de las obras del autor de Frankenstein en la edición de 1831.

Mary Shelley, las Brontë y Elizabeth Gaskell. La imaginación femenina y lo monstruoso en la literatura inglesa decimonónica (I): Mary Shelley y Frankenstein: la creación de un mito y su proyección en la literatura fantástica victoriana

Mentioned by

Bill Burr

as being on his third installment of the story about a plague that killed all the males.

Y:The Last Man, Rubberneckers, Popcorn | Thursday Afternoon Monday Morning Podcast 8-14-25

Mentioned by

Don Wildman

as written by Major Jonathan Bratton, chronicling the Guard's 103rd Infantry Regiment in World War I.

America's Greatest General

Mentioned by

Emmanuel Buzay

when discussing hunting motifs and reversed hunter/hunted roles in science fiction examples.

Emmanuel Buzay, "Contemporary French and Francophone Futuristic Novels: The Longing to be Written and Its Refusal" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)

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