Olaf Stapledon

Last and First Men

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This masterpiece of science fiction is an imaginative, ambitious history of humanity's future that spans billions of years. A must-read for scholars of the genre, this 1930 epic abounds in prescient speculations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Dover Publications Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 141mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 306g
• ISBN-13: 9780486466828
• ISBN-10: 0486466825
• Artikelnr.: 23366863

Autorenporträt

A preeminent figure of British science fiction, Olaf Stapledon (1886-1950) wrote several influential novels. Praised by H. G. Wells, Aldous Huxley, and Virginia Woolf, Stapledon's works introduced such innovative concepts as genetic engineering and terraforming.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword to the (Original) American Edition Preface Introduction, by One of
the Last Men The Chronicle 1. Balkan Europe 2. Europe's Downfall 3. America
and China 4. An Americanized Planet 5. The Fall of the First Man 6.
Transition 7. The Rise of the Second Men 8. The Martians 9. Earth and Mars
10. The Third Men in the Wilderness 11. Man Remakes Himself 12. The Last
Terrestrials 13. Humanity on Venus 14. Neptune 15. The Last Men 16. The
Last of Man Diagrams