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È il 1976. Robert Neville torna a casa dopo una giornata di duro lavoro. Cucina, pulisce, ascolta un disco, si siede in poltrona e legge un libro. Eppure la sua non è una vita normale. Soprattutto dopo il tramonto. Perché Neville è l'ultimo uomo sulla Terra. L'ultimo umano sopravvissuto, in un mondo completamente popolato da vampiri. Nella solitudine che lo circonda, Robert esegue la sua missione, studia il fenomeno e le superstizioni che lo circondano, cerca nuove strade per lo sterminio delle creature delle tenebre. Durante la notte Neville se ne sta rintanato nella sua roccaforte, assediato dai morti viventi avidi del suo sangue. Ma con il sorgere del sole è lui a dominare un gioco crudele e di meccanica ferocia, scandito dalle luci e dalle ombre di un tempo sempre uguale a se stesso e che impone la ripetizione di un rituale sanguinario. In questo mondo Neville, con la sua unicità, si è già trasformato in leggenda.

De jonge Amerikaanse sf-schrijver Alan E. Nourse heeft het feit dat hij medicijnen studeerde nooit verloochend in zijn verhalen en romans, en wij danken daaraan de verbijsterende geloofwaardigheid van zijn intriges. Zo maakt de lezer in "De Genadigen" kennis met een groep menselijke wrakken die tegen astronomische bedragen hun brein hebben verkocht aan de wetenschap in de hoop de experimenten te zullen overleven en schatrijk het onderzoekscentrum te kunnen verlaten. Hoofdpersoon in deze nachtmerrieachtige wereld is Jeff Meyer, al jarenlang verbitterd en verbeten jagend op Conroe, een man die steeds op het laatste moment de dans wist te ontspringen. Totdat Meyer erachter komt dat Conroe zich vermoedelijk schuilhoudt in de ondoordringbare verblijfplaats van de Genadigen, als een van hen...

In all of science fiction, there has never been a writer like R.A. Lafferty, the highly acclaimed author of Past Masters and Fourth Mansions . His people are heroic, foolish, demonic or mischievous, but always unpredictable, and his stories soar with imagination even while they chuckle at themselves. Here at last are the finest of Lafferty's shorter works, stories about: A man who found one day that he knew everyone in the world. A race who kept their most ancient ancestors on shelves in the basements. A speeded-up world where a man could earn and lose a dozen fortunes a night. A friendly bearlike creature named Snuffles who said he was God. ...in all, twenty-one immensely enjoyable stories that will continue to delight you long after you've read them.

"Breeds There a Man...?" is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. It was first published in the June 1951 issue of Astounding and reprinted in the 1967 collection Through a Glass, Clearly and the 1969 collection Nightfall and Other Stories. Elwood Ralson, a brilliant but psychologically disturbed physicist, becomes convinced that humanity is a kind of genetics experiment being run by an alien intelligence. His behaviour becomes more erratic and suicidal as his thoughts become more entrenched in this idea, and his health fails.