She’s a bit mad, but then as she ages she eventually regains most of her sanity, though she does still call Ruslan “Bogo” and has some other unusual quirks. Ruslan first encounters Cherpa, an 11-year-old girl living in the wild on a planet that once was home to humans. Alan Dean Foster is also a popular Star Wars novelist (he wrote The Force Awakens novelization), so I thought his writing and pacing (and so on) would be worth reading. I’m not usually one for male protagonists or male POVs, but I thought this would be an exception. I love aliens, and space, and dystopia-like devastations.
Now, the idea that only one human (supposedly) survives a plague which otherwise has extinguished the human race (across not just continents or even planets, but whole galaxies!) is totally up my alley. Along the way, Ruslan encounters quite a few surprises. They study him for a few more decades before Ruslan gets it into his head to search out humanity’s birthplace, Earth. The Myssari are tripeds – they have three legs and three arms, and they’re kind of triangular in shape. He lives on a human-colonized planet called Seraboth, and he survives there for a few decades before an alien race finds him. He’s middle-aged, and for whatever reason, he’s immune to the Aura Malignance. The synopsis goes a little something like this: after a galaxy-wide (well, universe-wide) plague (engineered by humans themselves) sweeps through the human population, killing basically 99.9999% of people, one human remains: Ruslan. I received an ARC ebook from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
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