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London: Methuen,, 1932. Whatever any of you has achieved of good is an excellence in itself, and a bright thread woven into the texture of the cosmos First edition, first impression, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "G. Lissant Cox, from Olaf Stapledon". The recipient was George Lissant Cox (d. 1967), a doctor and author on pathology based in Birkenhead, not far from Seacombe, where Stapledon was born. A partly autobiographical sequel to Last and First Men, this book is "far more introspective and openly personal than the first. In Last Men in London, Stapledon began composing a version of his own intellectual and emotional history transferred to a young man whom he initially called Henry Firstman. This protagonist, whose name he changed in a later draft to Paul, undergoes experiences that duplicate or gloss events from Olaf's childhood and early adult years... The analysis of war and of the failure of postwar cosmopolitanism, intended for…

Last Men in London is a science fiction novel by Olaf Stapledon, first published in 1932. It is a sequel to Last and First Men.