Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future is a "future history" science fiction novel written in 1930 by the British author Olaf Stapledon. A work of unprecedented scale in the genre, it describes the history of humanity from the present onwards across two billion years and eighteen distinct human species, of which our own is the first. The book employs a narrative conceit that, under subtle inspiration, the novelist has unknowingly been dictated a channelled text from the last human species. - Wikipedia
A truly amazing, unique achievement which is not a novel in the normal sense of the word. It tells 2 billion years of human and transhuman history, and I can see how it has been a huge influence on many great science fiction authors.
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