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Author : Olaf Stapledon
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819566934
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (195 download)
Download or read book Star Maker written by Olaf Stapledon and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2004-05-24 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science fiction-roman.
Author : Olaf Stapledon
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)
Download or read book Star Maker written by Olaf Stapledon and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2021-01-08 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A human narrator from England is transported out of his body via unexplained means. He realizes he is able to explore space and other planets. After exploring a civilization on another planet in our galaxy at a level of development similar to our own that existed millions of years ago thousands of light years from Earth (the "Other Earth") in some detail, his mind merges with that of one of its inhabitants, and as they travel together, they are joined by still more minds or group-minds. This snowballing process is paralleled by the expansion of the book's scale, describing more and more planets in less and less detail. The disembodied travelers encounter many ideas that are interesting from both science-fictional and philosophical points of view. Star Maker tackles philosophical themes such as the essence of life, of birth, decay and death, and the relationship between creation and creator. A pervading theme is that of progressive unity within and between different civilizations.
Author : Olaf Stapledon
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Star Maker written by Olaf Stapledon and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A human narrator from England is transported out of his body via unexplained means. He realizes he is able to explore space and other planets. After exploring a civilization on another planet in our galaxy at a level of development similar to our own that existed millions of years ago thousands of light years from Earth (the "Other Earth") in some detail, his mind merges with that of one of its inhabitants, and as they travel together, they are joined by still more minds or group-minds. This snowballing process is paralleled by the expansion of the book's scale, describing more and more planets in less and less detail. The disembodied travelers encounter many ideas that are interesting from both science-fictional and philosophical points of view. Star Maker tackles philosophical themes such as the essence of life, of birth, decay and death, and the relationship between creation and creator. A pervading theme is that of progressive unity within and between different civilizations.
Author : Olaf Stapledon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (125 download)
Download or read book Last and First Men written by Olaf Stapledon and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Olaf Stapledon
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Odd John written by Olaf Stapledon and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Odd John" by Olaf Stapledon. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : William Olaf Stapledon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (599 download)
Download or read book Star Maker by William Olaf Stapledon written by William Olaf Stapledon and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-19 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Star Maker is a science fiction novel by Olaf Stapledon, published in 1937. The book describes a history of life in the universe, dwarfing in scale Stapledon's previous book, Last and First Men (1930), a history of the human species over two billion years. Star Maker tackles philosophical themes such as the essence of life, of birth, decay and death, and the relationship between creation and creator. A pervading theme is that of progressive unity within and between different civilizations. Some of the elements and themes briefly discussed prefigure later fiction concerning genetic engineering and alien life forms. Arthur C. Clarke considered Star Maker to be one of the finest works of science fiction ever written.
Author : Robert Crossley
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815602811
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Olaf Stapledon written by Robert Crossley and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1994-07-01 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Olaf Stapledon is best remembered for the extraordinary works of speculative fiction he published between 1930 and 1950. As a novelist, he was known as the spokesman for the Age of Einstein and has influenced writers as diverse as Virginia Woolf, Arthur C. Clarke, and Doris Lessing. This biography is the first to draw on a vast body of unpublished and private documents—interviews, correspondence, archival material, and papers in private hands—to reveal fully the internal struggles that shaped Stapledon's life and reclaim for public attention a distinctive voice of the modern era. Late in his life in an unpublished "letter to the future" Stapledon unwittingly provided the rationale for his biography: "It is just possible that my very obscurity may fit me to speak more faithfully for my period than any of its great unique personalities. A pacifist in World War I, an advocate of European unity and world government, one of the first teachers in the Workers' Educational Association, and an early protestor against apartheid, Stapledon turned utopian beliefs into practical politics. With roots in the shipping worlds of Devon, Liverpool, and the Suez Canal, he was transformed from a self-described provincial on the margins of English literary and political life into a visionary idealist who attracted the attention of scientists, journalists, and novelists, and, given his left-wing political affiliations, even the F.B.I. Stapledon's novels—Last and First Men, Star Maker, Odd John, and Sirius—have gathered a passionate following, and they have seldom been out of print in the last twenty-five years. But the personal experiences and political commitments that shaped this creative work have, until now, barely been known. Robert Crossley's work reveals how, in public and in private, in his social activism as in his fiction, Olaf Stapledon embodied many of the modern era's anxieties and hopes that allow his works to continue to speak to and for the future.
Author : William Olaf Stapledon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (457 download)
Download or read book Star Maker by William Olaf Stapledon a Classic Illustrated Edition written by William Olaf Stapledon and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-29 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Star Maker is a science fiction novel by Olaf Stapledon, published in 1937. The book describes a history of life in the universe, dwarfing in scale Stapledon's previous book, Last and First Men (1930), a history of the human species over two billion years. Star Maker tackles philosophical themes such as the essence of life, of birth, decay and death, and the relationship between creation and creator. A pervading theme is that of progressive unity within and between different civilizations. Some of the elements and themes briefly discussed prefigure later fiction concerning genetic engineering and alien life forms. Arthur C. Clarke considered Star Maker to be one of the finest works of science fiction ever written.
Author : Robert Crossley
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815627241
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (272 download)
Download or read book An Olaf Stapledon Reader written by Robert Crossley and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1997-04-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Olaf Stapledon (1886-1950), philosopher, novelist, educator, and social activist had an imagination unlike that of any other figure in modernist literature. Along with H.G. Wells he is remembered as one of the most original and influential pioneers of twentieth-century science fiction. This first broadly inclusive anthology of Stapledon’s work offers a generous sampling of his fictional gems, including sections of his best known novels, Last and First Men, Odd Men, and Star Maker, and the complete text of two novellas, now back in print for the first time in fifty years, The Flames and Old Man in New World, as well as a selection of other writings, some previously unpublished, including essays, poems, and letters. These writings reveal the prophetic vision and utopian convictions that run through Stapledon’s work, and provide the broad context readers need to grasp the scope of his vision and to appreciate his great epic works, which are classics of science fiction.
Author : Olaf Stapledon
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)
Download or read book Sirius (Sci-Fi Novel) written by Olaf Stapledon and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2021-05-07 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sirius is a dog with humanlike intelligence. He is raised by scientist Thomas Trelone in North Wales, near Trawsfynydd. Thomas embarks on a program of using steroids and other chemicals to rapidly develop cognitive power of dogs, resulting in super sheep dogs. Sirius, however, proves to possess a dog intelligence comparable to a normal human being, as he is able to communicate with English words, although it takes some time for the humans to understand his canine pronunciation. He is born at the same time as his creator's human daughter, Plaxy, and the two of them are raised together as brother and sister. When Plaxy leaves for school they drift apart and troubles for Sirius begin. With human intelligence and emotion he declines to lead a life of a regular dog and he tends to develop as a person, but keeps running into obstacles.
Author : Olaf Stapledon
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486466825
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Last and First Men written by Olaf Stapledon and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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. A must-read for scholars of the genre.
Author : William Stapledon
Publisher : Jovian Press
ISBN 13 : 1537807013
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (378 download)
Download or read book Star Maker written by William Stapledon and published by Jovian Press. This book was released on 2017-12-12 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widely regarded as one of the true classics of science fiction, Star Maker is a poetic and deeply philosophical work. The story details the mental journey of an unnamed narrator who is transported not only to other worlds but also other galaxies and parallel universes, until he eventually becomes part of the "cosmic mind." First published in 1937, Olaf Stapledon's descriptions of alien life are a political commentary on human life in the turbulent inter-war years. The book challenges preconceived notions of intelligence and awareness, and ultimately argues for a broadened perspective that would free us from culturally ingrained thought and our inevitable anthropomorphism. This is the first scholarly edition of a book that influenced such writers as C.S. Lewis and Arthur C. Clarke and which Jorge Luis Borges called "a prodigious novel."
Author : Olaf Stapledon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788027341160
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (411 download)
Download or read book Star Maker written by Olaf Stapledon and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-13 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Driven out into the night by the bitterness of his life, an Englishman finds himself contemplating the night sky - its immensity, its mystery. Without explanation, he suddenly finds himself floating out into its depths. There he explores strange worlds, links with other conscious beings, and witnesses the birth and death of civilizations. As the scope of his experiences expands, the universe itself is revealed to him - its startling origins, its potential fate, and our place within its vastness... One of greatest and most influential science fiction novels ever written, Olaf Stapledon's philosophical masterwork is the ultimate exploration of the cosmos.
Author : William Olaf Stapledon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (733 download)
Download or read book Star Maker Annotated written by William Olaf Stapledon and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-07 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Star Maker is a science fiction novel by British writer Olaf Stapledon, published in 1937. The book describes a history of life in the universe, dwarfing in scale Stapledon's previous book, Last and First Men (1930), a history of the human species over two billion years. Star Maker tackles philosophical themes such as the essence of life, of birth, decay and death, and the relationship between creation and creator.
Author : William Olaf Stapledon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781726369312
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (693 download)
Download or read book Star Maker written by William Olaf Stapledon and published by . This book was released on 2018-09 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Star Makerby William Olaf StapledonWidely regarded as one of the true classics of science fiction, Star Maker is a poetic and deeply philosophical work. The story details the mental journey of an unnamed narrator who is transported not only to other worlds but also other galaxies and parallel universes, until he eventually becomes part of the "cosmic mind." First published in 1937, Olaf Stapledon's descriptions of alien life are a political commentary on human life in the turbulent inter-war years.
Author : Olaf Stapledon
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486269809
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (862 download)
Download or read book Last Men in London written by Olaf Stapledon and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-07-24 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this companion to Last and First Men, a being from the remote future investigates 20th-century life by entering a subject's mind and observing his childhood, participation in World War I, and afterward.
Author : Olaf Stapledon
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2105 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book The Philosophical & Science-Fiction Works of Olaf Stapledon written by Olaf Stapledon and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-28 with total page 2105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique and meticulously edited collection of Olaf Stapledon's greatest works includes: Novels:_x000D_ Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future_x000D_ Last Men in London_x000D_ Odd John: A Story Between Jest and Earnest_x000D_ Star Maker_x000D_ Darkness and the Light_x000D_ Sirius: A Fantasy of Love and Discord_x000D_ Death into Life_x000D_ Short Stories:_x000D_ The Flames_x000D_ The Seed and the Flower_x000D_ The Road to the Aide Post_x000D_ A Modern Magician_x000D_ East is West_x000D_ A World of Sounds_x000D_ Arms Out of Hand_x000D_ Philosophical Works:_x000D_ A Modern Theory of Ethics: A Study of the Relations of Ethics and Psychology_x000D_ Interplanetary Man?
