TY - ABST T1 - The Last Book in the Universe Y1 - 2000 A1 - Rodman Philbrick (b. 1951) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Young adult dystopia set many years after a worldwide earthquake destroyed civilization. The novel is in the form of a quest by a young man, an old man in a society controlled by gangs from one area to another under a different gang. Along the way, a child and a genetically enhanced young woman from Eden, a high-tech enclave completely cut off from the surrounding area, joins them.

PB - The Blue Sky Press/Scholastic CY - New York N1 -

. Part originally published as “The Last Book in the Universe.” Tomorrowland: 10 Stories About the Future. Comp. Michael Cart (New York: Scholastic Press, 1999), 9-23 with an “Author’s Note 22-23. 

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