"Olaf Stapledon - Last And First Men" - читать интересную книгу автора (Stapledon Olaf)

XI MAN REMAKES HIMSELF
1 The First of the Great Brains 230
2 The Tragedy of the Fourth Men 236
3 The Fifth Men 244
4 The Culture of the Fifth Men 250
XII THE LAST TERRESTRIALS
1 The Cult of Evanescence 259
2 Exploration of Time 265
3 Voyaging in Space 271
4 Preparing a New World 278
XIII HUMANITY ON VENUS
1 Taking Root Again 285
2 The Flying Men 290
3 A Minor Astronomical Event 302
XIV NEPTUNE
 1 Bird's-Eye View 306
2 Da Capo 308
3 Slow Conquest 313
XV THE LAST MEN
1 Introduction to the Last Human Species 321
2 Childhood and Maturity 327
3 A Racial Awakening 332
4 Cosmology 344
XVI THE LAST OF MAN
1 Sentence of Death 354
2 Behaviour of the Condemned 357
3 Epilogue 364




DIAGRAMS

TIME SCALE 1 68
TIME SCALE 2 138
TIME SCALE 3 206
TIME SCALES 4 AND 5 320




PREFACE

THIS is a work of fiction. I have tried to invent a story which may seem
a possible, or at least not wholly impossible, account of the future of man;
and I have tried to make that story relevant to the change that is taking
place today in man's outlook.
To romance of the future may seem to be indulgence in ungoverned
speculation for the sake of the marvellous. Yet controlled imagination in this
sphere can be a very valuable exercise for minds bewildered about the present