A review by simbotheking
Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon

2.0

Felt a tiny bit too pretentious for me and the writing style really starts to drag after a while. I don't think it helped that my MSc dissertation started around the same time as I started this and subsequently it felt like more and more of a chore to read such a dense book. Nonetheless, I think it is remarkably prescient in a lot of ways and I can't deny the imagination of it. Just started to really feel complex for the sake of complexity from about the middle onwards and it had such a damp squib of an ending I feel like it is a book I will quickly forget ever reading. Ah well.