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Last and First Men
A Story of the Near and Far Future (Sci-Fi Classic)By Olaf Stapledon
Length13h 16m
About this audiobook
Last and First Men is a "future history" science fiction novel, describing the history of humanity from the present onwards across two billion years and eighteen distinct human species, of which our own is the first. Conception of history follows a repetitive cycle with many varied civilizations rising from and descending back into savagery over millions of years, as the later civilizations rise to far greater heights than the first. It is an early example of the fictional supermind; a consciousness composed of many telepathically linked individuals.
Audiobook details
GenreGeneral Fiction, Science Fiction
Length13 hrs 16 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJan 8, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Preface
394. DELUSIONS OF THE MARTIANS
2Introduction By One of the Last Men
40IX Earth and Mars
3THE CHRONICLE
411. THE SECOND MEN AT BAY
4I Balkan Europe
422. THE RUIN OF TWO WORLDS
51. THE EUROPEAN WAR AND AFTER
433. THE THIRD DARK AGE
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62. THE ANGLO-FRENCH WAR
44X The Third Men in the Wilderness
73. EUROPE AFTER THE ANGLO-FRENCH WAR
451. THE THIRD HUMAN SPECIES
84. THE RUSSO-GERMAN WAR
462. DIGRESSIONS OF THE THIRD MEN
9II Europe’s Downfall
473. THE VITAL ART
101. EUROPE AND AMERICA
484. CONFLICTING POLICIES
112. THE ORIGINS OF A MYSTERY
49XI Man Remakes Himself
123. EUROPE MURDERED
501. THE FIRST OF THE GREAT BRAINS
13III America and China
512. THE TRAGEDY OF THE FOURTH MEN
141. THE RIVALS
523. THE FIFTH MEN
152. THE CONFLICT
534. THE CULTURE OF THE FIFTH MEN
163. ON AN ISLAND IN THE PACIFIC
54XII The Last Terrestrials
17IV An Americanized Planet
551. THE CULT OF EVANESCENCE
181. THE FOUNDATION OF THE FIRST WORLD STATE
562. EXPLORATION OF TIME
192. THE DOMINANCE OF SCIENCE
573. VOYAGING IN SPACE
203. MATERIAL ACHIEVEMENT
584. PREPARING A NEW WORLD
214. THE CULTURE OF THE FIRST WORLD STATE
59XIII Humanity on Venus
225. DOWNFALL
601. TAKING ROOT AGAIN
23V The Fall of the First Men
612. THE FLYING MEN
241. THE FIRST DARK AGE
623. A MINOR ASTRONOMICAL EVENT
252. THE RISE OF PATAGONIA
63XIV Neptune
263. THE CULT OF YOUTH
641. BIRD’S-EYE VIEW
274. THE CATASTROPHE
652. DA CAPO
28VI Transition
663. SLOW CONQUEST
291. THE FIRST MEN AT BAY
67XV The Last Men
302. THE SECOND DARK AGE
681. INTRODUCTION TO THE LAST HUMAN SPECIES
31VII The Rise of the Second Men
692. CHILDHOOD AND MATURITY
321. THE APPEARANCE OF A NEW SPECIES
703. A RACIAL AWAKENING
332. THE INTERCOURSE OF THREE SPECIES
714. COSMOLOGY
343. THE ZENITH OF THE SECOND MEN
72XVI The Last of Man
35VIII The Martians
731. SENTENCE OF DEATH
361. THE FIRST MARTIAN INVASION
742. BEHAVIOUR OF THE CONDEMNED
372. LIFE ON MARS
753. EPILOGUE
383. THE MARTIAN MIND
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