Last and First Men
Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future is a science fiction novel written in 1930 by the British author Olaf Stapledon. A work of unprecedented scale in the genre, it describes the history of humanity from the present onwards across two billion years and eighteen distinct human...
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Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future is a science fiction novel written in 1930 by the British author Olaf Stapledon. A work of unprecedented scale in the genre, it describes the history of humanity from the present onwards across two billion years and eighteen distinct human species, of which our own is the first and most primitive. Stapledon's conceptio
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ASIN: B01KG0KNE6
Edition language: English
I had not heard of this book until I decided I wanted to read through the SF Masterworks list. Boy am I glad I did. I am amazed that someone in 1930 could write this story.In this novel Stapledon gives the history of the human race from the near future to the end 2 billion years in the future coveri...