Take the wildest ride you can imagine - a million years into a totally unexpected future, to find the last man on Earth. Nobody has ever been so alone. Alex Kirk awakens a million years from now, utterly alone and in terrible danger on a brave new Earth. Humankind has been extinct for eons, and Alex Kirk is marooned like no human ever before--not just in space, but in time. There is no point, no purpose, no hope to his brief existence. He has never met another human, because he is a clone borne accidentally in a wrecked, moss-covered breeding tank deep in a cave, with only the original Alex Kirk's memories to sustain him, and those are brittle and fragmented in Alex's newly formed mind. And yet Alex Kirk summons the determination to live, to dream, and to strive against all despair. This is an entirely fresh and original novel, which innovatively evokes and builds upon Defoe's literary masterpiece. Critics, including Library Journal, praised John Argo's novel as a stunning rework in the tradition of Defoe's 1719 classic. Recall also the 1963 SF cult classic Robinson Crusoe on Mars. Here is the next book on that shelf - a must read that will rip your imagination from its foundation and send your mind hurtling into the unknown on a journey filled with terror and wonder. You see Earth one million years in our empty, terrifying future - which might as well be an alien planet, rich in life but strange. Alex the the last man on Earth, the final genetic sample of his kind--an afterthought of evolution or fate--and now he must either perish or conquer this world and its many mysteries. Earth in 1,000,000 A.D. is a planet of surprises, from huge saltwater flowers to the giant butterflies that pollinate them. Sinister and cunning, black-furred, evolved wolverine/bear Rippers with boar tusks lurk hour after hour waiting for Alex to make a single mistake so they can devour him. And there is much more in this scary new world: living caves that swallow people; armed and marauding aftermen; a haunted village of long-dead clone men and women; a valley formed when an ancient university crumbled and its experimental laboratories fissured, with a swift-flowing river between them. It is a valley littered with skulls, picked over by Rippers and other un-things in the long afterglow of old Earth. One day, solitary, lonely Alex sees a curious smudge in space, beside the moon. He will discover it encapsulates the secret of what happened to humankind, and the key to his own fate. Starting alone, naked, and with nothing except a fierce will to survive, Alex courageously explores, battles, and conquers. He ultimately confronts the enigma of who he is and why ancient humans left him shipwrecked and alone in eternity. Is there a woman-Friday to relieve what would otherwise be a nightmare existence for Alex Kirk? Read this novel and learn the answer. Hint: "strawberry ice cream." For more info, visit the author's webplex online at www.darksf.com.