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Vanga-Vangog — I-III and V-VIII (Last and First Men)
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The first seven human species out of 18 described in the book "Last and First Men" by Olaf Stapledon. The rest are the inhabitants of the outer solar system (Neptune) and are poorly described. I've also excluded the IV men, because they are basically brains the size of a building, that use turrets they are situated in as their "cranium" or "body". Even the first of them, that was about 12 feet across, would take almost a half of the picture even without his life-supporting house.Some of them (V, VII and VIII) already have their drawings, but I've decided to redesign some features here to make them less "I men"-like.
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Great work! I am reading the book with this open as reference. I can't comment on all the species, but race II is mentioned to have fused bones in the feet and no toes (to improve locomotion/reduce injury)
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I've read it in the russian translation, so some things might be lost in it. I interpreted the "fused bones" as fused tibia and fibula, because the latest in its current state is basically useless (most of the leg's rotation takes place in the hip joint) and can only break, causing trouble.
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Found the full story in case you want to put it in the description. Kinda forgot about some of the details.
ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/stapl…
A review.
www.infinityplus.co.uk/nonfict…
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No 9th or 18th?
Then again, the 8th should not have needed to create a new specie to live on Neptune and instead, built a rotating ring around Triton.
Maybe I got that part wrong but a detonation powerful enough to merge the remaining part of South America with Africa would have been far, far worst than the author anticipated.
Thousands of times worst than the KT eventat least. Hypersonic blast followed by the entire surface of the planet being plasma torched. Any objects in close orbit would have been burned to vapor. Heck, even the part of the moon facing the Earth could have been glassed. After the heat was gone, the atmosphere would have been mostly volcanic gasses.
The 2nd could have evolved on a space station far away from the Earth, 3rd when that station breaks down and 4th after the 3rd settles on a major planet.
Well done, in any case! The level of detail is such an irresistible pleasure!
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Looks like I need to find this book!
II and V have leg bones like elephants. I'm guessing different ones are associated with different planets or moons?
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II and V are just so big they need thicker bones to support their weight. VIII are more gracile because they inherited ligher and better organised (on micro-level) bones from their genetically engineered flying ancestors (VII).
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Are they all still on Earth, then? Or Mars, since some of the descriptions say the Martians have been experimenting on them?
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The first four are on Earth, the last three - on Venus. Martians haven't been experiementing on them, they just tried to invade the Earth and left some of their microscopic components (they were a collective organisms), which were later adapted by humans.
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This is so amazing, I tried to do something similar for a while but the way you presented these future humans is just nicely done.
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Damn, this is fantastic! It’s really quite impressive how detailed and seemingly life-like they are
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