Until the Last of Me
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| Author | Sylvain Neuvel |
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| Language | English |
| Series | Take Them to the Stars |
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| Publisher | Tor Books |
Publication date | March 2022 |
| Publication place | Canada |
| Media type | Hardback |
| Pages | 304 |
| ISBN | 978-1-250-26211-0 |
| Preceded by | A History of What Comes Next |
| Followed by | For the First Time, Again |
Until the Last of Me is a 2022 science fiction alternate history novel by Canadian writer Sylvain Neuvel. It was first published in March 2022 in the United States by Tor Books, and in the United Kingdom by Michael Joseph. The book is the second of three books in Neuvel's Take Them to the Stars series, preceded by A History of What Comes Next (2021) and followed by For the First Time, Again (2023).
Until the Last of Me is set between the late-1960s and the late-1980s during the Cold War. It is about a group of women who continue to manipulate history to get humanity into space The novel's chapter titles are titles of songs from the period in which the chapters take place.[1]
Mia and her daughter, Lola are the 99th and 100th generation of the mysterious Kibsu, a society of powerful women whose goal it is to save humanity, and ultimately get them into space. Until the Last of Me covers their influence in the United States' Space Shuttle program, and the Pioneer and Voyager space probes, and the Soviet Union's Venera planetary probes, and the Vostok cosmonaut program.
In addition to pursuing the Kibsu's goals, Mia and Lola also must evade the Tracker, an equally mysterious clan of men whose aim it is to seek and destroy the Kibsu. One of the Trackers is Samael, a young man who fights against his fellow Tracker's homicidal tendencies.