Last and First Men abridged edition

<b>A dazzling work of science fiction to which <i>Dune</i>, the Foundation trilogy, and <i>2001: A Space Odyssey</i> owe a major debt.</b><br><br>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.<br><br>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!