Olaf Stapledon's first novelLast and First Men, published in 1930, has sometimes been ... more
called science fiction's Bible--a sweeping, exhilarating history of humanity's future. Its awesome timescale, stretching across five billion years, was an inspiration...
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Olaf Stapledon's first novel Last and First Men, published in 1930, has sometimes been ... more
called science fiction's Bible--a sweeping, exhilarating history of humanity's future. Its awesome timescale, stretching across five billion years, was an inspiratio...
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One of the most extraordinary imaginative and ambitious novels of the century: a history ... more
of the evolution of humankind over the next 2 billion years. Among all science fiction writers Olaf Stapledon stands alone for the sheer scope and ambition of his...
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Olaf Stapledon's first novel Last and First Men, published in 1930, has sometimes been ... more
called science fiction's Bible--a sweeping, exhilarating history of humanity's future. Its awesome timescale, stretching across five billion years, was an inspiratio...
Postage & Packaging: £2.75 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days...
Olaf Stapledon's first novel Last and First Men, published in 1930, has sometimes been ... more
called science fiction's Bible--a sweeping, exhilarating history of humanity's future. Its awesome timescale, stretching across five billion years, was an inspiratio...
Postage & Packaging: £2.75 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days...
Olaf Stapledon's first novel Last and First Men, published in 1930, has sometimes been ... more
called science fiction's Bible--a sweeping, exhilarating history of humanity's future. Its awesome timescale, stretching across five billion years, was an inspiratio...
Postage & Packaging: £2.75 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days...
Olaf Stapledon's first novel Last and First Men, published in 1930, has sometimes been ... more
called science fiction's Bible--a sweeping, exhilarating history of humanity's future. Its awesome timescale, stretching across five billion years, was an inspiration to the young Arthur C. Clarke, who later wrote: "No book before or since ever had such an impact on my imagination." However, Last and First Men should come with a health warning: The early chapters, dealing with near-future politics from the viewpoint of 1930, are mired in dodgy short-term speculation and have dated badly. Soon Stapledon rings down the curtain on us "First Men" as an uncontrolled nuclear reaction sweeps the world and boils the oceans--and now his imagination takes flight. The Second Men are plagued with invasions of cloud-like Martians; the bat-eared, six-fingered Third Men deliberately create the Fourth Men who are essentially huge, immobile brains ... and so on through ever-vaster gulfs of time. Individuals, nations, civilizations, even species are evocatively shown as mayflies flickering in and out of existence in an immense, chilly cosmos that goes uncaringly on forever. Yet it's not a gloomy work: even as the dying Sun promises to become their funeral pyre, the Last Men affirm that "It is very good to have been man." Another classic choice from Millennium SF Masterworks. --David Langford
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Olaf Stapledon's first novel Last and First Men, published in 1930, has sometimes been ... more
called science fiction's Bible--a sweeping, exhilarating history of humanity's future. Its awesome timescale, stretching across five billion years, was an inspiration to the young Arthur C. Clarke, who later wrote: "No book before or since ever had such an impact on my imagination." However, Last and First Men should come with a health warning: The early chapters, dealing with near-future politics from the viewpoint of 1930, are mired in dodgy short-term speculation and have dated badly. Soon Stapledon rings down the curtain on us "First Men" as an uncontrolled nuclear reaction sweeps the world and boils the oceans--and now his imagination takes flight. The Second Men are plagued with invasions of cloud-like Martians; the bat-eared, six-fingered Third Men deliberately create the Fourth Men who are essentially huge, immobile brains ... and so on through ever-vaster gulfs of time. Individuals, nations, civilizations, even species are evocatively shown as mayflies flickering in and out of existence in an immense, chilly cosmos that goes uncaringly on forever. Yet it's not a gloomy work: even as the dying Sun promises to become their funeral pyre, the Last Men affirm that "It is very good to have been man." Another classic choice from Millennium SF Masterworks. --David Langford
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Firstmen in the moon.
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Author - H G Wells.
The book has a nostalgic feel to it, if feels well..quaint.
We follow the adventures of Prof Cavor and his new friend Mr Bedford.
Professor Cavor is an innocent genius who spends all day tinkering with new half baked inventions that he tries desperately to make work. But no more. He has, for the past several months being concentrating on his latest incredible invention, Cavorite.
Cavorite is a paint, unlike any other every seen. Once applied it block gravity making the object painted weightless.
Along the way Cavor meets Mr Bedford who initially is not a very nice person. Bedford is astonished to find that Cavor does not realise the magnitude of his discovery. But Cavor wants to go to the Moon and so builds a metal globe and paints the inside with Cavorite ...
Firstmen in the moon.
Author - H G Wells.
A classic 60s film in DVD quality.
Information;
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I had actually heard this movie on an audio tape several years ago, the audio had the voices of Leonard Nimoy (Spock) and John De Lancie (Q)
The film is a cracker!
The eccentric and easily distractible professor Cavor is played by the wonderful Lionel Jeffries.
Edward Judd and Martha Hyer play his fellow travellers. (on the audio, no woman accompanied them).
Ray Harryhausen's provides the special effects, 60s style.
Synopsis;
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Professor Cavor invents 'Cavorite' which has the properties of 'Anti-Gravity'
He, along with his two companions, travel to the moon but find that under the surface live the Selenites.
The Selenites are Bug like, child sized and sentient creatures.
Cavor wishes to communicate with them ...
Firstmen in the moon.
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Author - H G Wells.
A wonderful film that you will remember.
We meet Mr Bedford who calls himself a capitalist, a capitalist who at the moment is a little short of cash. One day Mr Bedford meets Professor Cavor just as he has perfected his invention, Cavorite. Cavorite is basically an anti-gravity paint.
Together they build space ship, paint on the Cavorite, and take a trip to the Moon.
However once there they come across the Moon race called the Selenites who decide to steal the secret of Cavorite and invade the earth.
Only Bedford and professor Cavor can stop them. There are a few twists and turns along the way and not everybody will make it back to Earth.
Stars the enigmatic Lionel Jeffries.
A wonderful film that grips you right from the start and never lets go. The special ...
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9781857988062
Type
Fiction
Genre
Science Fiction
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Title
Last and First Men
Author
Olaf Stapledon
ISBN
185798806X
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One of the most extraordinary imaginative and ambitious novels of the century: a history of the evolution of humankind over the next 2 billion years. Among all science fiction writers Olaf Stapledon stands alone for the sheer scope and ambition of his work. First published in 1930 Last and First Men is full of pioneering speculations about evolution terraforming genetic engineering and many other subjects.
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