Last and First Men - Stapledon William Olaf
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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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