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Last and First Men and Star MakerOlaf StapledonBooks |
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Last and First MenOlaf StapledonOlaf Stapledon |
Last and First Men Last and First Men: 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 and most primitive. Stapledon's conception of history is based on the Hegelian Dialectic, following a repetitive cycle with many varied civilizations rising from and descending back into savagery over millions of years, but it is also one of progress, as the later civilizations 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. A controversial part of the book depicts humans, in the far-off future, escaping the dying Earth and settling on Venus - in the process totally exterminating its native inhabitants, an intelligent marine species. Stapledon's book has been interprete... |
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Star MakerOlaf StapledonBooks |
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Last Men in LondonOlaf StapledonBooks |
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An Olaf Stapledon Reader Olaf Stapledon
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Last and First MenOlaf StapledonBooks |
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Last and First Men and Star Maker (HBK)Olaf StapledonBooks |
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Angel On BoardE. J. ThorntonBooks |
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Darkness and the LightOlaf StapledonBooks |
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Odd John and Sirius William Olaf Stapledon
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Last and First Men eBook 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 conception of history is based on the Hegelian Dialectic, following a repetitive cycle with many varied civilizations rising from and descending back into savagery over millions of years, but it is also one of progress, as the later civilizations rise to far greater heights than the first. The book anticipates genetic engineering, and the idea of superminds composed of many telepathically-linked individuals. A controversial part of the book depicts humans, in the far-off future, escaping the dying Earth and settling on Venus—in the process totally exterminating its native inhabitants, a marine intelligent species. Stapledon's book has been interpreted by some as condoning such interplanetary genocide as a justified ac... |
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Last and First Men eBookOlaf StapledonOlaf Stapledon |
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Sirius eBookOlaf StapledonKindle Store |
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