The most famous work of the master of English socio-philosophical literature of the first half of the XX century. Olaf Stapledon. From modernity - to the impending death of our world, from the creation of the Universe - to its irreversible destruction. Stapledon's eschatological philosophical concept, somewhat akin to visionary, and in some ways paraanthropology, is maximally expressed precisely in these parable works, which had a noticeable impact on the work of Levy-Strauss and Richard Bach.