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. 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 tel
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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. 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 tel
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Last and First Men: A Story of ...... in the SF Masterworks series.
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Les Derniers et les Premiers ( ...... et disparaîtront tour à tour.
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Die letzten und die ersten Men ...... Future History/Last Men Reihe.
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Infinito (titolo originale: La ...... atto mentale con lo scrittore.
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Last and First Men é um romanc ...... íduos telepaticamente ligados.
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Last and First Men: A Story of ...... ciousness composed of many tel
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Les Derniers et les Premiers ( ...... et disparaîtront tour à tour.
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Ostatni i pierwsi ludzie (Last ...... ogii Droga do science fiction.
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Die letzten und die ersten Menschen
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Infinito (Stapledon)
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Last and First Men
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Last and First Men
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Les Derniers et les Premiers
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Ostatni i pierwsi ludzie
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Последние и первые люди
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