Listening to this to try and calm tf down, and remembering I wanted to get a copy of the book the film is based on, Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon.

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Listening to this to try and calm tf down, and remembering I wanted to get a copy of the book the film is based on, Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon. Has anyone read it? I see there's an abridged version coming out later this year as part of MIT Press’s Radium Age series, not sure if being abridged is a good thing?

Last and First Men (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), by Jóhann Jóhannsson and Yair Elazar Glotman

Last and First Men (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) by Jóhann Jóhannsson and Yair Elazar Glotman, released 08 February 2020 1. Prelude 2. A Minor Astronomical Event 3. A Move to Neptune 4. Physical Description of The Last Human Beings 5. Architecture 6. Supreme Monuments 7. Telepathic Unity 8. Childhood and The Land of the Young 9. The Navigators 10. The Sun 11. A New Doom 12. First Task 13. Second Task 14. The Last Office of Humanity 15. The Slow Destruction of Neptune 16. The Few that Prevail 17. The Last Men 18. Remembrance of the Past 19. The Universal End 20. Epilogue

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@buffyleigh I’ve been wanting to read this book, and had no idea they’d made a movie for it! Is the movie good?

@hisaac It's a very abstract artsy sort of movie, like almost in the same vein as Koyaanisqatsi but with some narration. So, if you're not expecting a traditional movie, yes! I'm also an absolute Jóhann Jóhannsson (and Tilda Swinton) fangirl, so I'm completely, 110% biased.

@buffyleigh it’s a strange book but in a good way - and the film only captures part of it but to great effect

Not really sure why an abridged version would be preferable to the full version.

@wlukewindsor Okay I might try to find a different version then. The abridged is 304 pages compared to 336, seems like an odd decision based on that alone. Thanks!

@buffyleigh

Dig up the original! Really lovely book.

His novel ‘Star Maker’, published about 8 years after ‘Last and First Men’, deals with a similar subject but at a much (much much) wider scale. I like them both but ‘Star Maker’ is one of my favorite novels. You can’t go wrong with either of ‘em.

@chrkrhc Ooo okay great, definitely keeping an eye out for both then! 🙏🏻

@buffyleigh I read it a long long time ago. Probably in my early twenties. From what I remember dimly, it’s somewhat interesting but slowly paced. I’m not a fan of anything abridged though.

@buffyleigh I don’t know why it would need to be abridged, unless the version I read was, unbeknownst to me, also abridged. It’s not short but it’s really not all that long

@theseliminaldays Zero votes for abridged so far, lol! I can dig slow paced, no need for someone to speed it up for me.🙏🏻

@CoolerPseudonym Yeah comparing page lengths, looks like they cut 30ish pages for the abridged? Possibly more if the academic commentary stuff they add for the series is included in the listed page count, but still.

@buffyleigh Maybe it’s racist or something

@buffyleigh what do they refer with 'abridged'?