Dark desolate & fantastical The violet Cloud" was a pioneer in the genre of apocalyptic novels & the first great science fiction work of the twentieth century. It inspired authors such as H. P. Lovecraft & Stephen King. " The violet Cloud" tells the grandly bleak story of Adam Jeffson: the first man to reach the North Pole & the last man left alive on earth. A sweet-smelling deadly cloud of poisonous gas has devastated the world & as Jeffson travels the stricken globe in search of human life he slowly succumbs to madness & unleashes fire & destruction on his planet. John Sutherlands introduction discusses M. P. Shiels dissolute life the originality of his book & its place within the context of last man novels. This edition also
Includes:: a chronology notes & further reading."