Last Men in London
| Title | Last Men in London |
| Year for Search | 1932 |
| Authors | Stapledon, W[illiam] Olaf(1886-1950) |
| Tertiary Authors | Stapledon, W. Olaf |
| Date Published | 1932 |
| Publisher | Methuen |
| Place Published | London |
| Keywords | English author, Male author |
| Annotation | Loosely related to 1930 Stapledon, Last and First Men, but, even though it begins with a message from the last humans of two thousand million years in the future, the book is more restricted in scope. The people of this future have both evolved and re-designed themselves to live on Neptune. Children spend their first thousand years in a children's club, which they run, and which includes basic education. The second thousand years is spent on a separate continent, the Land of the Young. There are 96 sub-sexes. Telepathic. More leisure than work with each person specializing. Most of the book is then concerned with the modern world before, during, and after World War I. It then ends back on Neptune and with an "Epilogue" by Stapledon. |
| Additional Publishers | 2nd ed. London: Methuen, 1934. There do not appear to be any differences in the editions. First ed. rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1976 with an "Introduction" by Curtis C. Smith and Harvey J. Satty (v-xiv). Excerpts rpt. in An Olaf Stapledon Reader. Ed. Robert Crossley (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1997), 11-14. |
| Holding Institutions | L, NcD, PSt |
| Author Note | (1886-1950) |
| Full Text | 1932 Stapledon, W[illiam] Olaf (1886-1950). Last Men in London. London: Methuen. 2nd ed. London: Methuen, 1934. There do not appear to be any differences in the editions. First ed. rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1976 with an “Introduction” by Curtis C. Smith and Harvey J. Satty (v-xiv). Excerpts rpt. in An Olaf Stapledon Reader. Ed. Robert Crossley (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1997), 11-14. L, NcD, PSt Loosely related to 1930 Stapledon, Last and First Men, but, even though it begins with a message from the last humans of two thousand million years in the future, the book is more restricted in scope. The people of this future have both evolved and re-designed themselves to live on Neptune. Children spend their first thousand years in a children’s club, which they run, and which includes basic education. The second thousand years is spent on a separate continent, the Land of the Young. There are 96 sub-sexes. Telepathic. More leisure than work with each person specializing. Most of the book is then concerned with the modern world before, during, and after World War I. It then ends back on Neptune and with an “Epilogue” by Stapledon. |
