Charlie Stross on Nostr: Re-reading Olaf Stapledon's "Last and First Men" it's remarkable how the same pages ...

Re-reading Olaf Stapledon's "Last and First Men" it's remarkable how the same pages manage to be simultaneously soporific and gripping, a weird combination of dry infodump and epic-scale drama.

(There are no named protagonists, and no characterisation to speak of: the sole true protagonist in the book is a succession of human species marching across deep time.)

And yet, it's one of the wellsprings of SF.