Название: The Complete Sci-Fi Works of Olaf Stapledon
Автор: Olaf Stapledon
Издательство: Bookwire
Жанр: Языкознание
isbn: 4064066380328
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5. DESCENT AMONG THE FIRST MEN
1. PAUL AND HIS NEPTUNIAN PARASITE
CHAPTER V ORIGINS OF THE EUROPEAN WAR
1. THE NEPTUNIAN ATTITUDE TO THE WAR
3. PREHISTORIC ORIGINS OF THE WAR
2. PAUL GATHERS UP THE THREADS
3. PAUL COMES TO TERMS WITH WOMAN
CHAPTER IX ON EARTH AND ON NEPTUNE
4. EPILOGUE BY THE TERRESTRIAL AUTHOR OF THIS BOOK
PREFACE
THOUGH this is a work of fiction, it does not pretend to be a novel. It has no hero but Man. Since its purpose is not the characterization of individual human beings, no effort has been made to endow its few persons with distinctive personalities. There is no plot, except the theme of man’s struggle in this awkward age to master himself and to come to terms with the universe. This theme I seek to present by imagining that a member of a much more developed human species, living on Neptune two thousand million years hence, enters into our minds to observe the Terrestrial field through our eyes but with his own intelligence. Using one of us as a mouthpiece, he contrives to tell us something of his findings. The shortcomings of his report must be attributed to the limitations of his Terrestrial instrument.
This book is intelligible without reference to another fantasy, which I produced two years ago, and called Last and First Men. But readers of that earlier book will find that Last Men in London is complementary to it. In both, the same Neptunian being speaks, formerly to tell the story of man’s career between our day and his, now to describe the spiritual drama СКАЧАТЬ