Darkness and the Light
 Darkness and the Light (1942) is a science fiction novel by Olaf Stapledon.In this work written in 1941 at the most frightening point of World War II Stapledon projects two separate futures for humanity depending not on the outcome of that particular conflict but on the failure or success of a future Tibetan Renaissance to influence the temper and ideology of the militaristic Russian and Chinese empires that threaten it.