Apocalyptic Science Fiction - The Last Man

The first instance of apocalyptic science fiction was written by a french guy called the last man. And he's the first person to ever conceive of the extinction of everyone, and he ends up killing himself. It slooks like a crazy, tragic story,. Like, there he is, bringing it through in the imaginable realm, writing literature about how we're going to die. But then you start seeing this expanding capacity of our awareness. The last three 400 years was a sense of a, everything isn't just in suspended animation forever. Things come and they go, and we could too. There are forces outside our control that could snuff us.

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