'I was sitting bolt upright in bed breathing fast and staring at the wall. The daylight wasstreaming into the motel room through the slats of the blinds. I seemed to have been awake,and asleep, for ages...' John Hobson, a geneticist, wakes one morning to find his watch stopped at 6.12. The streets aredeserted, there are no signs of life or death anywhere, and every clock he finds has stopped- at6.12. Is Hobson the last person left on the planet? Inventive...