Last Enemy

There are stories which seek merely to entertain, and there are others which trouble the still waters of certainty, leaving the reader altered in ways subtle and permanent. Last Enemy belongs unmistakably to the latter kind. It stands as a meditation not simply upon the future, but upon the ancient and unquiet questions that have followed humanity since the first moment it looked into the darkness beyond its own firelight and wondered whether it was alone—not merely in space, but in moral a...