About the Author

Robert Crossley, professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, is the author of H.G. Wells and editor of Talking Across the World: The Love Letters of Olaf Stapledon and Agnes Miller, 1913-1919.

Reviews

Though more than sixty years have passed, I can still visualize the very shelf in the Minehead Public Library where I discovered Olaf Stapldon's Last and First Men. No other book had a greater influence on my life.-- "Arthur C. Clarke"