Last and First Men
Book Details
| Title: | Last and First Men | ||||||||||
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| Published: | 1930 | ||||||||||
| Publisher: | Methuen & Co. Ltd. | ||||||||||
| Tags: | fiction, philosophy, science fiction | ||||||||||
| Description: | A Story of the Near and Far Future is a “future history” 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. The book employs a narrative conceit that, under subtle inspiration, the novelist has unknowingly been dictated a channelled text from the last human species.
Stapledon’s conception of history is based on the Hegelian Dialectic, following a repetitive cycle with many varied civilisations rising from and descending back into savagery over millions of years, but it is also one of progress, as the later civilisations rise to far greater heights than the first. The book anticipates the science of genetic engineering, and is an early example of the fictional supermind; a consciousness composed of many telepathically linked individuals.—Wikipedia. [Suggest a different description.] |
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| Downloads: | 3,328 | ||||||||||
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Author Bio for Stapledon, Olaf
William Olaf Stapledon (10 May 1886—6 September 1950)—known as Olaf Stapledon—was a British philosopher and author of science fiction. In 2014, he was inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame.
Stapledon was awarded a PhD degree in philosophy from the University of Liverpool in 1925 and used his doctoral thesis as the basis for his first published prose book, A Modern Theory of Ethics (1929). However, he soon turned to fiction in the hope of presenting his ideas to a wider public. The relative success of Last and First Men (1930) prompted him to become a full-time writer. He wrote a sequel, Last Men in London, and followed it up with many more books of both fiction and philosophy.
Stapledon’s fiction often presents the strivings of some intelligence that is beaten down by an indifferent universe and its inhabitants who, through no...
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