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Raymond Miller solves usability problems for a living. From UI text and error messages to flows and stories, he protects the user experience for Symantec’s retail SSL certificate consumers. Raymond lives in San Jose, CA. When not staggering through half marathons, he writes crime fiction.

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Y: The Last Man

Y: The Last Man is one of those books that is just different. The story revolves around a man named Y. (His sister is named Hero--their father was a Shakespeare fanatic.)

Y is the last man on Earth. All other men were killed in a plague that lasted about five minutes. Y is now left with about 2.5 billion women. On the surface, this may sound like the plot for some bad B-movie with an extraordinary amount of frontal nudity. It is not.

The writer, Brian K. Vaughan is too smart, too respectful to the reader to mess around like that. This book is about the last man on Earth dealing with the best and worst women have to offer.

Why is this so good?
The characters are everything. Not only is Y interesting (he is an exceptional escape artist and owns a monkey), all the other characters are very well drawn.

The women must deal with a huge hole in modern society. Kind of like when your grandfather dies and your grandmother realizes that there are hundreds of things she needs to educate herself to do. Sometimes the women do a great job, sometimes not, but it is always entertaining.

Check out Y: The Last Man.















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