![]() Primarily it's to explore gender politics and behavior, but they also have the secondary benefit of providing an excuse to write literature in which most of the principal characters are female (a major change from a lot of fiction). This type of story exists for several reasons. The last man will quickly become a target, sought by every woman of power and means in the world, as his sperm may be the key to the survival of the human race. This is classic Genre Blindness, as stories of this type almost never fit this pattern. If it is the latter, the Last Man on Earth, our protagonist, may initially think that his life is going to be all orgies and pampering from now on. If it is the males who die off ( as is most frequently the case), the story will be about how the surviving women rebuild society, or how Fish out of Water males cope with a society that has already been rebuilt. In many stories, there is one survivor of the lost gender - the protagonist, love interest, or MacGuffin of the story. ![]() ![]() ![]() A Depopulation Bomb variant that removes approximately half of the population of the world in one stroke, namely one complete gender. ![]()
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