About the book: 2004 / This book includes two of the most famous works by the master of English social and philosophical literature of the first half of the 20th century. Olaf Stapledon's The Last and First Men and The Star Maker. From modernity - to the coming death of our world, from the creation of the Universe - to its irreversible destruction. Stapledon's eschatological philosophical concept, in some ways akin to visionaryism, and in some ways to para-anthropology, is expressed to the maximum extent in these parable works, which had a noticeable influence on the work of Lévi-Strauss and Richard Bach.