These books remind us that humanity as we know it is, in various ways, always under attack
, a futuristic science fiction inspired heavily by tragic events in her own life: the loss of three of her four children and then her husband .
Over the course of the novel, which takes place between the 2070s and 2100, political turbulence in Europe gives way to a sweeping plague, doomsday cults, and the eventual deaths of all but one of the main characters—one might read this last man, Lionel, as Shelley herself, and some of the others as stand-ins for her husband and their friend Lord Byron.
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