The Last Men Standing by Thomas Petersen

The virus needed less than two months. It left one man alive in two hundred.

The world grinds to a halt: oil stops, crops rot, cities count the days of food left. The women who remain must learn to run a civilization before hunger finishes what the virus started.

Stephen survived. An ER doctor one week, one of the rarest humans alive the next. Worshipped, claimed, trusted by no one, least of all himself. Every rising world offers him a throne. None offers a way to stay the man he was.

Mary loses everyone. She promises herself she will never be powerless again. Keeping it draws her deep into the government’s repopulation machine, where the cause is noble, the work necessary, and each compromise comes easier than the last.

Civilization didn’t end. It changed hands. Power doesn’t care whose hands it’s in.

For readers of Station Eleven, Children of Men, and The Stand.

Category: Science Fiction – Dystopian