Just as it’d work if viewed as a philosophical endeavor into the nature of what it is to BE human. If taken as a quest for acceptance, it works. The Last Human works acceptably well as an action-adventure-but for a few issues we’ll get to later.
A promise, that like all else, might well turn out to be nothing more than the lies she’s been fed her whole life. Sarya ends up alone-surrounded by a crew of misfits-and homeless, with only the vague promise of humans on the horizon. Bu entert a bounty hunter, a stolen ship, a kinetic missile and an adventure she never imagined she’d get.
Sarya is ecstatic, nervous, and skeptical all in the same instant. Recognizes, and promises to reunite her with her own kind. When a hive mind, a fourth Tier being, visits Watertower, it recognizes Sarya for what she really is. Here Sarya has accepted her life to be seen as nothing but a Spaal-a slow, pedantic alien worth nothing aboard a worthless station. A nothing station in the middle of nowhere, overlooking a world good for nothing but the ice it provides. Watertower Station is the last place anyone would expect a human to be. Now humans are presumed extinct, but are hunted mercilessly to ensure that theory. Near a millennia past, the humans waged a war against the Network-the system that accepts and balances life throughout countless galaxies and realities. The LAST human, near as she can tell-the most feared and hated species in the universe. One that, if any other but her mother knew, would have her ejected from the nearest airlock then pushed into the nearest sun so that not even ashes remained. That Sarya is her adoptive daughter is not taken lightly. Shenya, a widow and as such a killing machine both feared and respected the galaxy over. Sarya commands little respect, what she does have courtesy of her mother, Shenya the Widow. Indeed, none of her classmates treat her as anything more than a joke, and a particularly dull one at that. She goes through life pretending to be nothing more than the wayward Spaal, an intelligence so low on Tier One that it barely merits being classified as ‘intelligent’ at all. Sarya is an orphan, adopted and raised by a Widow. Part metaphysical, part philosophical, and part action-adventure science fiction, The Last Human is Zack Jordan’s debut novel, following a human in an universe without them, and her search for acceptance on behalf of herself and her species. Many thanks to Del Rey and NetGalley for the review copy! All opinions are my own. I was kindly furnished with an ARC in exchange for an honest review.
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