Last Day Town

Information

Status

Completed

Year

2023

Author

Aaron Ben

• Pythia I
  Jan 31, 2024
• Ctesibius I
  Jan 28, 2024
• Diocletian II
  Jan 26, 2024
• Diocletian I
  Jan 24, 2024
• Anaxagoras II
  Jan 11, 2024
• Anaxagoras I
  Oct 24, 2023
• PART ONE - Prologue - Traditions
  Oct 24, 2023

Reviews

Community Reviews(6)

• AlternateRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  Everything about this story is spectacular. Ever character feels real, with their own motives. Every struggle is visceral, and there is a constant anxiety in the background as the oxygen slowly runs out that leaves me on the edge of my seat. This incredible plot is accompanied by some  immersive and creative world building which is slowly revealed to the audience. This one of the best science fiction novels I have ever read on or off this site, and I recommend that you give it a try.
  Minor plot spoilers below, if you want to know more about the story before you start reading it.
  Last Day Town is an incredible physiological thriller that answers the question of what you would do if you have only one day left to live. Some residents fall into despair and madness, others struggle to sustain their existence at any and all costs resorting to horrifying means, while others still accept their doom and attempt to use what little time they have left to sustain and build a lasting legacy. The protagonist arrives as a visitor to Last Day Town, and upsets the balance of this precarious and bizarre society. Will he manage to return to the crumbling civilization of the Ceres colony to expose the government’s wrongdoings, or become only a story repeated to the next generations to inhabit Last Day Town?
• KanecaRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  “Last Day” is a harrowing masterpiece, delving into the psyche of political prisoners facing the ultimate sentence. Cast onto the desolate surface of Ceres with nothing but 24 hours of air, the book explores the brutal lengths to which individuals go in their quest for survival, and the sacrifices a few are willing to make for their fellow man. The narrative thrives on its ability to intertwine the horrifying with the terrifying, encapsulating the essence of human resilience against the backdrop of utter despair.
• Keon ShoreRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  I really loved this novel. It's many perspectives on life and death, the inevitability, the different attempts at structuring and holding existential fear and chaos in the human heart to offer space for more than despair... truly a wonderful story.
  It isn't without flaws but it's originality and the completeness of the story outweigh the flaws. I'm mainly referring to the second part of the story, which I felt was a bit forced and artificial.
  I'll usually only give four stars for a story I really liked. I reserve 5 for something that was exceptional in some way, at least to me. The entire idea of last day town especially how it's presented in the first part to me felt so creative that just for this I give it 5. Apart from that the narration is solid, the pace is good, the characters at times are a bit cold but never lifeless or shallow - just a bit hard to connect with. It got better throughout the story though. The setting and it's physics felt realistc, believable. I did wonder where they were getting water from in LDT, but it's a minor question and perhaps it was mentioned and I forgot it.
  All in all I truly am glad I read this and recommend it.
• NasnariethRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  Royal road is a mixed bag, you never know what you’re going to find. Every now and again you come across something that is so exceptional you wonder why the author isn’t on the shelves in every bookstore. This is one of those pieces.
  Unfortunately, it appears to have slipped between the cracks in a way that is wholly unforgivable. This should be up there with “The Demon in the Mirror”. Unfortunately, the author appears to be terrible at self-promotion and has accrued a few half-stars which have kicked them down the rankings in a way that is wholly unjustified, possibly because the prologue is quite hard to read.
  I won’t spoil it for you by delving into the plot. It is a piece unlike anything else I have read, with a concept unlike anything else I have encountered.
  Read it, straight away, it’s not that long. You’ll get to the prologue with it’s slightly tortutured grammar and wonder if you’ve made a mistake, you haven’t, you can skip the prologue if you like, I did the first time around.
  Style: A mixture of first person and omniscient. The omni sections are mostly marked with italics, which works just fine. Grammar is very strange in the prologue, and deliberately so in ways that make sense later.
  Story: Read it.
  Character: Pythia, Csestibus, these are characters unlike any other. Properly human, properly frightened, not human, not alien. Complex, layered characters with every piece of humanity and zinging little bursts of honesty. Just read it.
  Should you read it? Yes. What else is it like? Well, it’s hard sci-fi and high concept. You’ll be thinking this is a story about aliens or eternal gods or ghosts or something. It’s not that, it’s something I’ve never seen before. It explains itself as it goes.
  Read it, please, then tell me I’m not wrong.
• Salfredolph The MerchantRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  I enjoyed this story, there aren't many like it and it makes my brain happy.
  I sat down and read every chapter available at the moment and I can recommend others read this (found this story via ad).
  The Grammar is great.
  The main character is not some badass or complete loser he's himself.
• Sir spudShedRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  Yeah, now this was a good read.
  Set in space? Tick.
  Mysterious and intriguing? Tick.
  Good pace? Tick.
  Clever characters? Tick.
  Thick plot? Tick.
  No blue boxes? Tick.
  All boxes? Ticked 👍
  E x c e p t  t h a t  l a s t  o n e .