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Y the Last Man

Book • 2002
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.

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Émile Torres
as an early example of a book exploring the concept of human extinction.
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as a key figure in her analysis of the human condition and the concept of extinction.
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when discussing his top 25 best comics of all time.
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Lakshmi Krishnan
as an example of cli-fi, also a pandemic novel, about climate change and new diseases.
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