Add

Activity

Profile

Welcome to Litsy!

Litsy is a place to share and discover your favorite books with your favorite people.

Litsy is available on the web, for iOS and Android.

It’s fun.  It’s simple.  It’s all about the book. Sign up and get a little Litsy.

Create Account

To respect member's privacy and keep things awesome, most of Litsy is hidden from Google. We let humans see and share pages, but not machines. Find out more.

This page is: Hidden

Trending Hashtags

#bookspinbingo

87 users recently

#12booksof2024

71 users recently

#serieslove2025

39 users recently

#bookspin

117 users recently

#jumpstart2025

16 users recently

#25alive

23 users recently

Trending Books

Untitled

87 users recently

Lark Rise to Candleford - Trilogy: Lark Rise, Over to Candleford and Candleford Green

Flora Thompson

5 users recently

Most Wonderful Crime of the Year

Ally Carter

29 users recently

Sense and Sensibility

Jane Austen

5 users recently

Whose Body?

Dorothy Sayers

7 users recently

The Purple Cloud | M. P. Shiel, John Sutherland

3 posts | 3 read | 8 to read

Dark, desolate and fantastical, The Purple Cloud was a pioneer in the genre of apocalyptic novels, and the first great science fiction work of the twentieth century. It inspired authors such as H. P. Lovecraft and Stephen King. 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. A sweet-smelling, deadly cloud of poisonous gas has devastated the world, and as Jeffson travels the stricken globe in search of human life, he slowly succumbs to madness, and unleashes fire and destruction on his planet. John Sutherland's introduction discusses M. P. Shiel's dissolute life, the originality of his book and its place within the context of 'last man' novels. This edition also includes a chronology, notes and further reading.

Roary47

The Purple Cloud | M.P. Shiel

bailed

DNF- Alright, we have our MC going to the North Pole and while he was there his companions die, and a purple cloud descends on the rest of the world that kills everyone. The writing was really good actually so I might try this again. I‘m bailing on it because he‘s literally the last man on earth. He is the only narrative so it‘s a bit depressing. Right now I‘m not in a good head space for it.

10 likes