Last and First Men William Olaf Stapledon http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2028 urn:isbn:0486219623 en 1930 Novels Science Fiction 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 act if necessary for racial survival, though a number of Stapledon's partisans denied that such was his intention, arguing instead that Stapledon was merely showing that although mankind had advanced in a number of ways in the future, at bottom it still possessed the same capacity for savagery as it has always had. 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The book challenges preconceived notions of intelligence and awareness, and ultimately argues for a broadened perspective that would free us from culturally ingrained thought and our inevitable anthropomorphism. This is the first scholarly edition of a book that influenced such writers as C.S. Lewis and Arthur C. Clarke and which Jorge Luis Borges called "a prodigious novel." This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2029.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2029.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2029.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2029.mobi Last Men in London William Olaf Stapledon http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2032 en 1932 Novels Science Fiction Last Men in London (1932) is a science fiction novel by Olaf Stapledon. The narrator is the same member of the eighteenth and final human species who purportedly induced Stapledon to write Last and First Men. Last Men in London is the story of this being's exploration of the consciousness of a present-day Englishman named Paul, from childhood through service with an ambulance crew in the First World War (mirroring Stapledon's own personal history) to adult life as a schoolteacher faced with a "submerged superman" in his class nicknamed Humpty. The inadequacies of Paul's character, the various dilemmas he has to face during his life, and the occasional influence of the advanced being who shares his experiences, provide Stapledon with a semi-autobiographical platform on which to expound his philosophical and moral beliefs. 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This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2031.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2031.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2031.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2031.mobi East is West William Olaf Stapledon http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2034 en 1979 Short Fiction Science Fiction This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2034.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2034.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2034.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2034.mobi A World of Sound William Olaf Stapledon http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2036 en 1936 Short Fiction Science Fiction This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2036.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2036.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2036.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2036.mobi A Modern Magician William Olaf Stapledon http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2033 en 1979 Short Fiction Fantasy This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2033.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2033.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2033.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2033.mobi A Man Divided William Olaf Stapledon http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2040 en 1950 Novels This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2040.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2040.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2040.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2040.mobi Darkness and the Light William Olaf Stapledon http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2044 en 1942 Novels Science Fiction This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2044.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2044.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2044.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2044.mobi Death into Life William Olaf Stapledon http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2041 en 1946 Novels Science Fiction War This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2041.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2041.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2041.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2041.mobi The Seed and the Flower William Olaf Stapledon http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2037 en 1916 Short Fiction Religion This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2037.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2037.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2037.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2037.mobi Arms Out of Hand William Olaf Stapledon http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2035 en 1946 Short Fiction Science Fiction This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2035.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2035.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2035.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2035.mobi The Flames William Olaf Stapledon http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2039 en 1947 Short Fiction Science Fiction This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2039.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2039.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2039.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2039.mobi The Road to the Aide Post William Olaf Stapledon http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2038 en 1916 Short Fiction War This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2038.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2038.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2038.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2038.mobi The Big Fix George Oliver Smith http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2019 en 1959 Short Fiction Science Fiction Anyone who holds that telepathy and psi powers would mean an end to crime quite obviously underestimates the ingenuity of the human race. Now consider a horserace that had to be fixed... 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