/sci/ - Science & Math

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Reminds me of Last and First Men when humans genetically engineered themselves to live on Neptune, then thought to be terrestrial. It's a book worth a skim.

A short, classic read.

To the /sci/entists who have read this, thoughts?

I thought it was quite the bit of classic sci-fi, highlighting the limits on our knowledge of the solar system at that time while providing an imaginative depiction of humanities future. The idea that humanity will evolve in and out of sapience is pretty rare in sci-fi.

Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future is a science fiction novel written in 1930 by the British author Olaf Stapledon. A work of unprecedented scale in the genre, it describes the history of humanity from the present onwards across two billion years and eighteen distinct human species, of which our own is the first and most primitive.

The complete book can be found here
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0601101h.html