Last and First Men [William Olaf Stapledon] on *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future is a. Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future is a science fiction novel written in by the British author Olaf Stapledon. A work of unprecedented. Last and First Men a story of the near and far future. Olaf Stapledon. This web edition published by [email protected] Last updated Monday, May 25, at .
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Msn know, like the actual history of humanity so far. Indeed, it’s kinda impossible to have those here except in brief glances relying on bird’s eye views before necessarily jumping on to the next BIG IDEA and Super-Imaginative setting.
There is no cast of characters that determines the events and what not. A fear I have while writing this review is that my admiration for it won’t do this book any justice, nor any favors. We do well to remember.
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The Shadow Conspiracy Trilogy: Dover Publications May 19, Language: It feels a bit like a cop-out on Stapledon’s part.
And yet, it’s still brilliant. I am in awe of this book and the mind that stapledob it.
The Seed and the Flower. I’ve never read any fiction so ambitious in scope, folks.
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It is very good to have been man. The philosophies give it away. I honestly believe if everybody read this, it might give an impression of our insignificance – it actually made me quite proud to be a part of the human species. Pages with related products. This reads like a textbook for some far future civilisation, the descendants of humankind. I suppose that’s high praise, after all. Customers who bought this item also bought. Part of the point of buying older books and reading older predictions is seeing what the authors of the atapledon thought would shape the world of the future.
Aug 20, Stephen rated it really liked wilkiam Shelves: The scope of this ‘novel’ is staggering. During that period humanity evolves through what Olaf describes as 18 different species of men our presen 4. Almost all of these populist projections seem kind of mundane and trivial when placed next to Stapledon’s.
I found it eye-crossingly boring and almost unreadable, only smoothing out after the establishment of the lunatic World State and later Patagonian Empire.
Willixm love for life seeps from its pages, rooted in common sense but also in the romantic. Ratings and Reviews 0 0 star ratings 0 reviews. Can anybody recommend a good Kindle edition?
Wells, Aldous Huxley, and Virginia Woolf, Stapledon’s works introduced such innovative concepts as genetic engineering and terraforming. Stapledon for prescience, since he pegged the two dominant countries of the future so solidly, but there are no characters to make us care about the story and there are no passages of graceful prose to make us forgive the lack of characters. Olaf Stapledon’s Last and First Men View all 14 comments. Retrieved 25 March Customers who viewed this item also viewed.
Amazon Second Chance Pass it on, trade it in, give it a second life. The striving to be better, more intelligent, the race to cheat death and discover immortality, the deep need for exploration.
It amused me how close he came to the truth in his projections stapledoh the “near future” in some areas and how far off the mark he was in opaf. And this, sadly, is his swansong.
This is famously one of the classics of science fiction.