Bloomington, IN: 1st Books Library, (2003). SIGNED first edition - A late novel by this prolific screen writer - In 1953, when he was just starting out as a writer he was among over 200 writers who were blacklisted after refusing to reveal names of suspected Communists before the infamous House Un-American Activities Committee, but he was one of the less than 10% who were able to recover their careers. Speculative fiction sent in the near future - 2050 - just 30 years after the human race lost its ability to procreate. "For thirty years the resumption of procreation has eluded massive worldwide research. Until Mike Swain, microbiologist, the last man on earth to be born and theoretically, who will be the last to die, stumbles upon the remedy." INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in May 2003, the month of publication. vi, 219 pp. ISBN: 1-410747344.