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More info Olaf Stapledon (1886 — 1950) is a professor of psychology, philosophy and industrial history at the University of Liverpool, a writer whose work made an indelible impression on the most popular SF artists of the twentieth century. Stanislav Lem, Arthur Clarke, Brian Aldiss have repeatedly spoken about Stapledon’s novels with great warmth, considering him to be their teacher in many ways. a large-scale science fiction story of the future, covering two billion years of evolution of the mind on Earth and in the solar system. The history of the origin and development of mankind, the variety of forms of living and intelligent matter, countless wars and catastrophes that form all new types of development, the exit of people of the future to Mars, Venus, Neptune and beyond — beyond the studied universe … A presentiment of something important, great, absolute , an eternal search and an eternal struggle with inertia — this book was so charged with ideas that subsequent generations of science fiction writers got an inexhaustible storehouse of inspiration …
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