The Purple Cloud

If now a swell from the Deep has swept over this planetary ship of earth and I who alone chanced to find myself in the furthest stern as the sole survivor of her crew... What then my God shall I do?. The Purple Cloud is widely hailed as a masterpiece of science fiction and one of the best last man novels ever written. A deadly purple vapor passes over the world and annihilates all living creatures except one man Adam Jeffson. He embarks on an epic journey across a silent and devastated planet an apocalyptic Robinson Crusoe putting together the semblance of a normal life from the flotsam and jetsam of his former existence. As he descends into madness over the years he becomes increasingly aware that his survival was no accident and that his destiny — and the fate of the human race — are part of a profound cosmological plan.