[HN Gopher] The Last Man (Mary Shelley novel)
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The Last Man (Mary Shelley novel)
Author : samclemens
Score : 55 points
Date : 2023-02-04 23:00 UTC (1 days ago)
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| jason-phillips wrote:
| > It was not until the 1960s that the novel resurfaced for the
| public as a work of fiction, not prophecy.
|
| Yet...?
| chaostheory wrote:
| I was going to reply with "it would have been more impressive
| if she also wrote about climate being a factor". Assuming the
| Wikipedia summary is accurate, she does have climate as a major
| factor. That said, the major and minor details still do not
| come close to match our reality
| fbdab103 wrote:
| I too am missing the connection. Million monkeys and
| typewriters. Old novel has parallels to modern events, with
| significant deviations from reality. Author clearly visitor
| from the future.
| jwilk wrote:
| FWIW, the part about "prophecy" has been removed from the
| article:
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| https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Last_Man_(Mar...
| mcenedella wrote:
| I'd immediately thought of "The Last Man in Europe", which was
| the working title for George Orwell's 1984.
| petermcneeley wrote:
| Sounds a bit like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_man
| Lacerda69 wrote:
| Mary Shelley suprises me yet again with not only the first horror
| novel but also the first dystopia damn
| dang wrote:
| William Godwin (Mary Shelley's father) wrote a novel called
| Caleb Williams which I remember as a very early dystopian
| thriller - not in the alternate-world sense, but in the
| "innocent man hounded by sinister agents" style a la Enemy of
| the State (or North by Northwest for that matter) and tons of
| other modern things. Pretty cool to have one foot in the 18th
| century and the other a good 200 years into the future.
| azeemba wrote:
| Based on the comments here, I assume the link used to redirect to
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Man_(Mary_Shelley_nov...
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| But now it seems to go to the disambiguation page
| jwilk wrote:
| Indeed:
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| https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Last_Man&acti...
| dang wrote:
| Huh. Ok, we've replaced the submitted URL
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Man with the Shelley
| link above.
|
| Thanks to you both!
| tgv wrote:
| > the governmental system of the Romantic era.
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| I didn't know the Romantic era had one. That's really bad, even
| for Wikipedia.
| apocalypstyx wrote:
| The early 1800s didn't have governments?
| [deleted]
| JKCalhoun wrote:
| When discussing government as opposed to say art or
| literature, "Romantic era" is a strange choice.
| tgv wrote:
| Was the English system of government similar to the French?
| The German? The Greek? The Chinese? And who governed the
| Romantic era?
|
| Countries have governments, badly defined time periods don't.
| cess11 wrote:
| The sentence you quoted from mentions the British Empire
| twice already, do you really need a third mention at the
| end to understand what the context is for the quoted part?
| bragr wrote:
| There's a pretty good graphic novel with with a similar name and
| theme. It was written post 9/11 and definitely draws on that as a
| source of thematic inspiration. I'd give the TV show a miss
| though.
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| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y:_The_Last_Man
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