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Last and First Men
"[A] 'future history' science fiction novel written in 1930 by the British author Olaf Stapledon.
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"[A] 'future history' 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 ... The book anticipates the science of genetic engineering, and is an early example of the fictional supermind; a consciousness composed of many telepathically-linked individuals"--Page 4 of cover.
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