Last and First Men

About this eBook

Author

Stapledon, Olaf, 1886-1950

Title

Last and first men : A story of the near and far future

Original Publication

Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1930, pubdate 1937, reprint 1963.

Credits

Al Haines, Cindy Beyer & the online Distributed Proofreaders Canada team at www.pgdpcanada.net

Language

English

LoC Class

PR: Language and Literatures: English literature

Subject

Human beings -- Fiction

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 79003

Release Date

July 2, 2026

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Preface — Introduction By One of the Last Men — I Balkan Europe
2. 2.1. THE EUROPEAN WAR AND AFTER
3. 3.2. THE ANGLO-FRENCH WAR
4. 4.3. EUROPE AFTER THE ANGLO-FRENCH WAR
5. 5.4. THE RUSSO-GERMAN WAR — II Europe’s Downfall
6. 6.1. EUROPE AND AMERICA
7. 7.2. THE ORIGINS OF A MYSTERY
8. 8.3. EUROPE MURDERED — III America and China
9. 9.1. THE RIVALS
10. 10.2. THE CONFLICT
11. 11.3. ON AN ISLAND IN THE PACIFIC — IV An Americanized Planet
12. 12.1. THE FOUNDATION OF THE FIRST WORLD STATE
13. 13.2. THE DOMINANCE OF SCIENCE
14. 14.3. MATERIAL ACHIEVEMENT
15. 15.4. THE CULTURE OF THE FIRST WORLD STATE
16. 16.5. DOWNFALL — V The Fall of the First Men
17. 17.1. THE FIRST DARK AGE
18. 18.2. THE RISE OF PATAGONIA
19. 19.3. THE CULT OF YOUTH
20. 20.4. THE CATASTROPHE — VI Transition
21. 21.1. THE FIRST MEN AT BAY
22. 22.2. THE SECOND DARK AGE — VII The Rise of the Second Men
23. 23.1. THE APPEARANCE OF A NEW SPECIES
24. 24.2. THE INTERCOURSE OF THREE SPECIES
25. 25.3. THE ZENITH OF THE SECOND MEN — VIII The Martians
26. 26.1. THE FIRST MARTIAN INVASION
27. 27.2. LIFE ON MARS
28. 28.3. THE MARTIAN MIND
29. 29.4. DELUSIONS OF THE MARTIANS — IX Earth and Mars
30. 30.1. THE SECOND MEN AT BAY
31. 31.2. THE RUIN OF TWO WORLDS
32. 32.3. THE THIRD DARK AGE — X The Third Men in the Wilderness
33. 33.1. THE THIRD HUMAN SPECIES
34. 34.2. DIGRESSIONS OF THE THIRD MEN
35. 35.3. THE VITAL ART
36. 36.4. CONFLICTING POLICIES — XI Man Remakes Himself
37. 37.1. THE FIRST OF THE GREAT BRAINS
38. 38.2. THE TRAGEDY OF THE FOURTH MEN
39. 39.3. THE FIFTH MEN
40. 40.4. THE CULTURE OF THE FIFTH MEN — XII The Last Terrestrials
41. 41.1. THE CULT OF EVANESCENCE
42. 42.2. EXPLORATION OF TIME
43. 43.3. VOYAGING IN SPACE
44. 44.4. PREPARING A NEW WORLD — XIII Humanity on Venus
45. 45.1. TAKING ROOT AGAIN
46. 46.2. THE FLYING MEN
47. 47.3. A MINOR ASTRONOMICAL EVENT — XIV Neptune
48. 48.1. BIRD’S-EYE VIEW
49. 49.2. DA CAPO
50. 50.3. SLOW CONQUEST — XV The Last Men
51. 51.1. INTRODUCTION TO THE LAST HUMAN SPECIES
52. 52.2. CHILDHOOD AND MATURITY
53. 53.3. A RACIAL AWAKENING
54. 54.4. COSMOLOGY — XVI The Last of Man
55. 55.1. SENTENCE OF DEATH
56. 56.2. BEHAVIOUR OF THE CONDEMNED
57. 57.3. EPILOGUE

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