The Last Evolution
()
About this ebook
Read more from John W. Jr. Campbell
Who Goes There? Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Islands of Space Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Islands of Space Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsInvaders from the Infinite Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Ultimate Weapon Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Black Cat Weekly #38 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsInvaders from the Infinite Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Black Star Passes Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Black Cat Weekly #40 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to The Last Evolution
Related ebooks
A True Story Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSimulacrum: Exploring the Possibility of a Simulated Reality Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Dream: Dystopian Sci-Fi Classic Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsStar Trek The Original Series Quiz Book: Questions from beyond the final frontier Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Living Labyrinth Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGorracula: a Tale of Science Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Venging: Stories Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/52011: Trendspotting for the Next Decade Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Complete Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLightspeed Magazine, Issue 164 (January 2024): Lightspeed Magazine, #164 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Claimed: Sci-Fi Classic Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Variable Man Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFantastic Fables Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Tripping the Tale Fantastic: Weird Fiction by Deaf and Hard of Hearing Writers Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWhat Does a Martian Look Like?: The Science of Extraterrestrial Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Karankawa Kadla - mixed tongue -: Medicine for the Land & our Peoples Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Great God Pan Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Toward Distant Suns: A Bold, New Prospectus for Human Living in Space Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCaptain Avery The Galactic Bank Heist Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/53 Books To Know Travel Literature Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSpaceland: A Novel of the Fourth Dimension Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Execution Channel Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Humanities and the Dream of America Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWayward Comet:: A Descriptive History of Cometary Orbits, Kepler's Problem and the Cometarium Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAmra, Vol 2, No 14: January, 1961 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Ray Bradbury Science Fiction MEGAPACK® Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsInterzone #267 (November-December 2016) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings3 Books To Know Orientalism Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA mission to inform: Journalists at risk speak out Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Fantasy For You
Fairy Tale Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Lord Of The Rings: One Volume Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Tress of the Emerald Sea: Secret Projects, #1 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Empire of the Vampire Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Priory of the Orange Tree Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This Is How You Lose the Time War Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Wizard's First Rule Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Nettle & Bone Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Silmarillion Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Warrior of the Light: A Manual Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Fellowship Of The Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Piranesi Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sabriel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lovecraft Country: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Black Sun Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sarah J. Maas: Series Reading Order - with Summaries & Checklist Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Eyes of the Dragon Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mistborn: Secret History Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Perelandra: (Space Trilogy, Book Two) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The City of Dreaming Books Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Immortal Longings Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Picture of Dorian Gray (The Original 1890 Uncensored Edition + The Expanded and Revised 1891 Edition) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Phantom Tollbooth Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Assassin and the Underworld: A Throne of Glass Novella Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for The Last Evolution
0 ratings0 reviews
Book preview
The Last Evolution - John W. Jr. Campbell
The Last Evolution
By John W. Campbell, Jr.
Wilder Publications
Copyright © 2014 Wilder Publications
All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever.
Manufactured in the United States of America
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
ISBN 978-1-63384-089-8
I am the last of my type existing today in all the Solar System. I, too, am the last existing who, in memory, sees the struggle for this System, and in memory I am still close to the Center of Rulers, for mine was the ruling type then. But I will pass soon, and with me will pass the last of my kind, a poor inefficient type, but yet the creators of those who are now, and will be, long after I pass forever.
So I am setting down my record on the mentatype.
It was 2538 years After the Year of the Son of Man. For six centuries mankind had been developing machines. The Ear-apparatus was discovered as early as seven hundred years before. The Eye came later, the Brain came much later. But by 2500, the machines had been developed to think, and act and work with perfect independence. Man lived on the products of the machine, and the machines lived to themselves very happily, and contentedly. Machines are designed to help and cooperate. It was easy to do the simple duties they needed to do that men might live well. And men had created them. Most of mankind were quite useless, for they lived in a world where no productive work was necessary. But games, athletic contests, adventure—these were the things they sought for their pleasure. Some of the poorer types of man gave themselves up wholly to pleasure and idleness—and to emotions. But man was a sturdy race, which had fought for existence through a million years, and the training of a million years does not slough quickly from