books by William Olaf Stapledon (divided between sirius)

books by William Olaf Stapledon

books:

ODD JOHN: A STORY BETWEEN JEST AND EARNEST.

1 review
William Olaf. Stapledon

London: Methuen & Co. Ltd.,, 1935

Homo-Superior
Olaf Stapledon's "Odd John: A Story Between Jest and Earnest", published in 1935, is his third novel and it takes the idea of the evolution of homo sapiens into a new race, an idea which he touched on briefly at the end of his second novel "Last Men in London", and this time he devotes the entire work into looking at the interaction between homo sapiens and the new race homo superior. The idea ...

Odd John and Sirius

18 reviews
William Olaf Stapledon, Olaf Stapledon

Dover Publications, 1972

Little Freak and Mandog
Olaf Stapledon was a visionary philosopher who utilized archetypal science fictional concepts, in the 1930s and 1940s, to comment brilliantly and movingly on the human condition. While Stapledon cannot be easily categorized as "sci-fi," he has had a wide, but currently unappreciated, influence on the field. His profound influence on Arthur C. Clarke and Ray Bradbury is quite obvious, and sci-fi ...

A MAN DIVIDED

Oak Grove, 2008

CONTENTS: 1. A WEDDING FIASCO 2. VICTOR'S EARLY LIFE 3. BEGINNINGS OF OUR FRIENDSHIP 4. BUSINESS MAN AND SOLDIER 5. NEW START 6. MAGGIE'S EARLY LIFE 7. UNCERTAIN HAPPINESS 8. A DISTRESSING INTERLUDE 9. VICTOR FORGES AHEAD 10. CHECK 11. GLOOM 12. STRANGE TRIUMPH *** a selection from the first chapter: A WEDDING FIASCO 1921 VICTOR HAD REFUSED his bride at the altar! That was the brute fact which agitated the little party in ...

Star Maker (SF Masterworks) (Millennium SF Masterworks S)

31 reviews
Olaf; Stapledon, William Olaf Stapledon

Gollancz

Has anyone ever really thought this big?
I have been interested in the world's many religions for a long time, as well as in science and particulary cosmology and astronomy, but I don't think I've ever come across someone who's thought quite so BIG before. Sure, the Hindus and Buddhists put a lot of zeroes after their timelines for everything, but one doesn't get the impression they really know what they mean. Sure, scientists describe ...

Last and First Men

20 reviews
William Olaf Stapledon

Gregg Pr, 1976

Think of something god-like in being able to watch the ebb and flow of man.
"No book before or since has ever had such an impact upon my imagination," declared 2001 author Arthur C. Clarke of this masterpiece of science fiction. An imaginative, ambitious history of humanity's future that spans billions of years, this 1930 epic abounds in prescient speculations. Not only a must-read for scholars of the genre but even for those who want to look beyond their own ...

LAST MEN IN LONDON.

3 reviews
William Olaf. Stapledon

London: Methuen & Co. Ltd.,, 1932

the blind recollection of past light
Serious science fiction historians know Olaf Stapledon as an early influence on the big thinking side of the field, but his books appeared so early (1930s-40s) that even few of those historians know about him. Stapledon could also be considered a theoretical philosopher who used science fiction to explore his ideas on man's place in the vast universe. His many non-fiction works of philosophy ...