The Last and First Man by Olaf Stapleton

"I liked the whole interplanetary idea as a mythology, and simply wished to conquer from my own christian point of view what has always hitherto been used by the opposite sidei think. Wells's first man in the moon is the best sort of this sort that i have read," he says. "What immediately spurred me to write out of the silent planet was olaf stapleton's last and first man ... both seem to have the desperately immoral outlook which i try to pillory in weston"