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Last and First Men, Abridged Edition

Last and First Men, Abridged Edition

Stapledon, Olaf
de Abaitua, Matthew

Paperback

Series: Mit Press / Radium Age

Science FictionClassic Fiction

Publisher Price: $19.95

ISBN10: 0262054620
ISBN13: 9780262054621
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: Aug 25 2026
Pages: 300
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.70
Language: English
A dazzling work of science fiction to which Dune, the Foundation trilogy, and 2001: A Space Odyssey owe a major debt.

Narrated telepathically by one of the Last Men, Olaf Stapledon's epic history of the future caused a literary sensation when it first appeared in 1930. Over the course of two billion years, it seems, ever more alien versions of humankind will rise and fall -- developing every sort of utopian and dystopian civilization only to descend into savagery again and again, until eventually the Earth's resources are depleted.

This abridged edition takes us from the fall of the First Men to the initial efforts of the Fifth Men, the last Terrestrials, to colonize other planets!

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