![]() ![]() ![]() The cover illustration is by Geoffrey Martin. Reissued March 1963 with a foreword by Brian Aldiss. Last and First Men (1875) by Olaf Stapledon The next two thousand years', thus selling it short by a factor of a million. Sadly, the blurb on the book's back cover was not so generous and described it as a 'history of In his foreword to the new editionĪldiss wrote that it was a tatty Pelican which had introduced him to Stapledon's novel when he was serving in the British army during World War Two, adding that theĮncounter was later to influence his own work as an sf writer. Stapledon's Last and First Men, which was one of the books that had launched Penguin's Pelican imprint in 1937. In 1963 Penguin launched a separate sf series with Brian Aldiss, as the series editor, recommending titles for inclusion in the series. Spree: The History of Science Fiction (1973). Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts. The Art of Penguin Science Fiction: Memory of the future ![]()
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