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Last and First Men - Publishing People Series

William Olaf Stapledon

出版	Independently Published, 2020-11
主題	Fiction / Science Fiction / General
ISBN	9798555905949
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=sBMJzgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

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.