By Olaf Stapledon
Olaf Stapledon's 1937 successor to Last and primary Men deals one other entrancing speculative historical past of the longer term. Its narrator, a latest Earthman, joins a group of explorers who go back and forth to the farthest reaches of the universe, looking lines of intelligence. alongside the best way, they stumble upon nautiloid water beings, races of hyperspiders and hyperfish, composite workforce intelligences, plantlike creatures, and different unusual existence kinds. Their dramatic voyage unfolds opposed to a backdrop of life-and-death struggles on a cosmic scale.
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