The Purple Cloud (1901) - M. P. Shiel
Category: Classic
Narrator: Clifford Samuel
Tags: Classic, (Post)apocalyptic, Sci-Fi, Adults
Penguin Classics Length: 13 hrs and 53 mins Release date: 07-02-20 Publisher: Penguin Audio, The Purple Cloud tells the grandly bleak story of Adam Jeffson, the first man to reach the North Pole and the last man left alive on earth, . Foretold by a priest as being against the will of God, Adam Jeffsons Arctic expedition unleashes a terrible fate on the world - a mysterious purple cloud that spreads far into the heavens and across the earth., 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
