Title: deservedly obscure
Review: "Olaf Stapledon is the undisputed master of science fiction. His work predates all major authors and the scope of his vision was so vast that modern authors merely leech ideas from him."1) This is an absurd claim. Stapledon's "The First and Last Men" was written FORTY YEARS A-F-T-E-R H. G. Wells's austerely beautiful and, of course, monumentally influential "The Time Machine". In the hundred plus years since, only Poland's Stanislov Lem has rivaled H. G. Wells.2) Sorry, making your "story" take place over a zillion years does not make it "deep"; it only makes it tedious. Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World" (a science-fiction novel from an author who mainly wrote non-science-fiction), published within a few years of "The First and Last Men", is infinitely more telling, trenchant, and philosophically compelling.
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