Vintage Paperbacks
Last and First Men by Martin Isaac on Flickr.
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Last and First Men
Olaf Stapledon
Penguin Science Fiction
First published 1930
Published in Pelican Books 1937
Reprinted in Penguin Books 1963
Cover design by Geoffrey Martin
Cover price: 3’6
From the back cover:
This ‘history of the next two thousand years’ remains one of the milestones of science fiction, despite some of the early details which will inevitably strike a modern reader as odd.
Last and First Men received extraordinary acclaim when it was first published in 1930. J. B. Priestley called it a masterpiece, and Arnold Bennett said: ‘There have been many visions of the future… but none in my experience as strange as Last and First Men. Mr Stapledon possesses a tremendous and beautiful imagination’
The infinite and icy perspectives of a surrealist painting give form to Stapledon’s vision of the future. As cataclysm succeeds cataclysm there is always a new race of men to take up the torch from the last, down to ‘the last syllable of recorded time’ and the destruction of the solar system. It rest with the Last Man to pronounce: ‘It is very good to have been man.’
This, indeed, is one of the great books that have helped to shape the science fiction of today.
Olaf Stapledon - Last and first Men - Last Men in London by citizen3xx24j on Flickr.
Olaf Stapledon (1886-1950)
Olaf Stapledon - Sirius: A Fantasy Of Love And Discord (Penguin 1999-5) on Flickr.
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Stapledon, Olaf
Sirius: A Fantasy Of Love And Discord
Penguin
1973
Cover by Pelham, David
J Hunter Holly - The Green Planet (Monarch 213) on Flickr.
John Schoenherr (5 July 1935 - 8 April 2010)
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Holly, J Hunter
The Green Planet
1961
Monarch213
Novel
First
Cover by Schoenherr, John
Paul Tabori - The Green Rain (Pyramid G624) on Flickr.
John Schoenherr (5 July 1935 - 8 April 2010)
Via Flickr:
Tabori, Paul
The Green Rain
1961
Pyramid G624
Cover by Schoenherr, John
Philip K Dick - Our Friends From Frolix 8 (Ace 64400) on Flickr.
John Schoenherr (5 July 1935 - 8 April 2010)
Via Flickr:
Our Friends From Frolix 8
Dick, Philip K.
Ace 64400
1970
Cover by John Schoenherr
John Brunner - Born Under Mars (Ace G664) on Flickr.
John Schoenherr (5 July 1935 - 8 April 2010)
Via Flickr:
Brunner, John
Born Under Mars
1967
Ace G664
Cover by Schoenherr, John
Doctor to the Stars by McClaverty on Flickr.
John Schoenherr (5 July 1935 - 8 April 2010)
Via Flickr:
Doctor to the Stars, by Murray Leinster
Pyramid F-987, 1964
Cover art by John Schoenherr
The Radio Planet by McClaverty on Flickr.
John Schoenherr (5 July 1935 - 8 April 2010)
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The Radio Planet, by Ralph Milne Farley
Ace F-312, 1964
Cover art by John Schoenherr
