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" — Time Magazine

Last and First Men constructing a drawer using a"No book before or since has ever had such an impact upon my imagination," declared Arthur C. Clarke of Last and First Men. This masterpiece of science fiction by British philosopher and writer Olaf Stapledon (18861950) is an imaginative, ambitious history of humanity's future that spans billions of years. Together with its follow up, Star Maker, it is regarded as the standard by which all earlier and later future histories are measured. The