最后与最初的人
Last and First Men
Olaf Stapledon · 初版 1930 年
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为什么值得读
- 被誉为科幻史上极具野心与意义的开创之作
- 对人类未来可能性的想象极其大胆且反套路
- 描写了接续演化的智慧物种与星球的衰亡
这是对人类当下心灵状态与未来演进最简炼、最精准的刻画之一。它记录了人类从二战爆发伊始直至太阳吞噬地球乃至更遥远未来的漫长历程。鉴于本书于 1931 年首版，无论是对人性的坦诚揭示，还是其惊人的时间跨度，都令人叹为观止。读到全书 16 章中的第 3 章时，时代便已来到公元 2300 年，让你仿若置身于上帝视角。其行文如此深厚有力，以至于短短数页便需要花费数小时阅读、数周去沉思。这是何等
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……质量更高：1. The Cyberiad 2. Babel-17 3. The Stars My Destination 4. The Sheep Look Up 5. More Than Human 6. Lord of Light 7. To Your Scattered Bodies Go 8. Earth Abides 9. Dying Inside 10. City 11. Last and First Men 12. Slan 13. The World of Null-A
…higher quality: 1. The Cyberiad 2. Babel-17 3. The Stars My Destination 4. The Sheep Look Up 5. More Than Human 6. Lord of Light 7. To Your Scattered Bodies Go 8. Earth Abides 9. Dying Inside 10. City 11. Last and First Men 12. Slan 13. The World of Null-A
……带青色网格和旋转动画的全息投影。久而久之，这些设计就成了偷懒的套路——就像反派总穿厚重的黑皮衣一样。反观奥拉夫·斯塔普尔顿（Olaf Stapledon）的《最后与最初的人类》（Last and First Men）这类作品，对未来可能性的探索要大胆得多。背后的问题在于，19世纪末为20世纪的发明大爆发铺平了道路，麦克斯韦/赫维赛德冲锋在前……
…holographic projections with cyan grids and twirly animations. After a while these designs become lazy tropes - like villains who wear chunky black leather. Compare with something like Olaf Stapledon's Last and First Men, which is far more adventurous about possible futures. The background problem is that the 20th century was set up for an explosion of invention by the late 19th, with Maxwell/Heaviside leading the charge…
R.A. Lafferty 的《九百个祖母》（Nine Hundred Grandmothers，除了《沙之书》收录的以外均已绝版）；奥拉夫·斯塔普尔顿的《最后与最初的人类》（Last and First Men），在 http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2028/last-and-first-men 可以免费阅读；查尔斯·斯特罗斯的《渐快》（Accelerando），在 http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelera... 免费；《怀疑者的……
Nine Hundred Grandmothers, by R.A. Lafferty (out of print except for "The Books of Sand") Last and First Men, by Olaf Stapledon, free at http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2028/last-and-first-men Accelerando, by Charles Stross, free at http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelera... The Doubter's…
……大一那年我选了一门科幻文学课（顺便提一句：后来发现我爸大概40年前也跟同一个教授上过这门课）。教授说，斯塔普尔顿的《最后与最初的人类》（Last and First Men）是科幻史上最具野心、最意义深远的作品，我很赞同这一观点。
…freshman year in college I took a science fiction literature course (aside: it turned out that my dad took the same course with the same professor some 40 years earlier). The professor said that Stapledon's Last and First Men was the most ambitious and significant work in the genre's history, and I am inclined to agree.
会不会是奥拉夫·斯塔普尔顿的《最后与最初的人类》（Last and First Men）？它是长篇小说，不是短篇，但结构和你描述的一样，都涉及到一系相承的智慧种族（包括鸟人），以及行星逐渐变得不再宜居……
Could it be Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon? It's a novel, not a short story, but it has the same structure you've described involving successive sentient races (including bird-like people) and the planets gradually becoming uninhabitable.…
斯坦尼斯瓦夫·莱姆……我赞同……《索拉里斯星》（Solaris）确实很特别……而且大多数原著党似乎都认为从波兰语翻译过来的版本很烂！……奥拉夫·斯塔普尔顿的《最后与最初的人类》和《造星主》（Star Maker）都令人惊艳……厄休拉·勒古恩也浮现在我脑海中
Stanislaw lem.. i agree... Solaris was special.. and most purists seemed to suggest the translation from Polish was bad!... Olaf stapledon's last and first men, starMaker were both stunning... Ursula le guin also come to mind