Last and First Men. Olaf Stapledon

       Olaf Stapledon

      Last and First Men

      A Story of the Near and Far Future (Sci-Fi Classic)

      e-artnow, 2021

       Contact: [email protected]

      EAN 4064066387181

Table of Contents

       Preface

       Introduction By One of the Last Men

       THE CHRONICLE

       I Balkan Europe

       1. THE EUROPEAN WAR AND AFTER

       2. THE ANGLO-FRENCH WAR

       3. EUROPE AFTER THE ANGLO-FRENCH WAR

       4. THE RUSSO-GERMAN WAR

       II Europe’s Downfall

       1. EUROPE AND AMERICA

       2. THE ORIGINS OF A MYSTERY

       3. EUROPE MURDERED

       III America and China

       1. THE RIVALS

       2. THE CONFLICT

       3. ON AN ISLAND IN THE PACIFIC

       IV An Americanized Planet

       1. THE FOUNDATION OF THE FIRST WORLD STATE

       2. THE DOMINANCE OF SCIENCE

       3. MATERIAL ACHIEVEMENT

       4. THE CULTURE OF THE FIRST WORLD STATE

       5. DOWNFALL

       V The Fall of the First Men

       1. THE FIRST DARK AGE

       2. THE RISE OF PATAGONIA

       3. THE CULT OF YOUTH

       4. THE CATASTROPHE

       VI Transition

       1. THE FIRST MEN AT BAY

       2. THE SECOND DARK AGE

       VII The Rise of the Second Men

       1. THE APPEARANCE OF A NEW SPECIES

       2. THE INTERCOURSE OF THREE SPECIES

       3. THE ZENITH OF THE SECOND MEN

       VIII The Martians

       1. THE FIRST MARTIAN INVASION

       2. LIFE ON MARS

       3. THE MARTIAN MIND

       4. DELUSIONS OF THE MARTIANS

       IX Earth and Mars

       1. THE SECOND MEN AT BAY

       2. THE RUIN OF TWO WORLDS

       3. THE THIRD DARK AGE

       X The Third Men in the Wilderness

       1. THE THIRD HUMAN SPECIES

       2. DIGRESSIONS OF THE THIRD MEN

       3. THE VITAL ART

       4. CONFLICTING POLICIES

       XI Man Remakes Himself

       1. THE FIRST OF THE GREAT BRAINS

       2. THE TRAGEDY OF THE FOURTH MEN

       3. THE FIFTH MEN

       4. THE CULTURE OF THE FIFTH MEN

       XII The Last Terrestrials