Last And First MenOne of the most extraordinary, imaginative and ambitious novels of the century: a history of the evolution of humankind over the next 2 billion years. |
Contents
Europes Downfall | |
America and China | |
An Americanized Planet | |
The Fall of the First | |
Earth and Mars | |
The Third Men in the Wilderness | |
Man Remakes Himself | |
The Last Terrestrials | |
Humanity on Venus | |
Neptune | |
The Last | |
The Last of | |
Transition | |
The Rise of the Second | |
The Martians | |
Afterword | |
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