"Time Machine" by Herbert Wells, this is a unique novel. This is what humanity has tried to formulate over the course of decades, in philosophical writings, fiction novels, utopias, etc. Wells wrote it clearly, clearly and separately. His "Eloi" and "Morlock", this is an absolutely brilliant move, this is an absolutely clear description of where in the long term the evolutionary division can lead to a dead end.
Then repeated in the Strugatsky brothers, I refer you to Dmitry Bykov's lecture on "Ludens." I do not quite agree with him, and I always do not quite agree with Bykov, but it's extremely interesting to listen to, so excuse me. His hypothesis, which he ends up formulating for the Strugatsky brothers, as though arriving at their moves, symbolic, complex, which is simply not reinterpreted in a nutshell.
Bykov says that mankind expects an evolutionary leap, a division into two completely incompatible races, with different goals, with different cognitive abilities, with different social structures. The old humanity will not be able to accept this new species that originated inside it, but it will only need a new species as a memory of ancestors, they will be completely different from others, they have other interests. And here Bykov, as it were, "sees" the features of this future, the genius work of the Strugatsky. It's all very interesting, but it's social fantasy.
But Wells brought this idea to its logical conclusion and so brilliantly it was not done by anyone over the past century.
I love this book because it tells us very clearly where we are going. Gentlemen, we are moving in the wrong direction, in my opinion.
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