Olaf Stapledon

William Olaf Stapledon (10 May 1886 – 6 September 1950) was a British philosopher and author of science fiction.Andy Sawyer, "[William] Olaf Stapledon (1886-1950)", in Bould, Mark, et al, eds. Fifty Key Figures in Science Fiction. New York: Routledge, 2010. (pp. 205–210) .John Kinnaird, "Stapledon,(William) Olaf" in Curtis C. Smith, Twentieth-Century Science-Fiction Writers. Chicago, St. James, 1986.  (pp. 693–6). In 2014, he was put into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame.

Works

Fiction
Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future (1930) ()
Last Men in London (1932) ()
Odd John: A Story Between Jest and Earnest (1935) ()
Star Maker (1937) () First Edition cover by Bip Pares 
Darkness and the Light (1942) ()
Old Man in New World (short story, 1944)
Sirius: A Fantasy of Love and Discord (1944) ()
Death into Life (1946)
The Flames: A Fantasy (1947)
A Man Divided (1950) ()
Four Encounters (1976) ()
Nebula Maker (drafts of Star Maker, 1976) ()
 East is West (posthumous, 1979)

Non-fiction
A Modern Theory of Ethics: A study of the Relations of Ethics and Psychology (1929)
Waking World (1934)
Saints and Revolutionaries (1939)
New Hope for Britain (1939)
Philosophy and Living, 2 volumes (1939)
Beyond the "Isms" (1942)
Seven Pillars of Peace (1944)
Youth and Tomorrow (1946)
Interplanetary Man? (1948)
The Opening of the Eyes (ed. Agnes Z. Stapledon, 1954)

Poetry
Latter-Day Psalms (1914)

Collections
Worlds of Wonder: Three Tales of Fantasy (1949)
To the End of Time: the Best of Olaf Stapledon (ed. Basil Davenport, 1953) ()
Far Future Calling: Uncollected Science Fiction and Fantasies of Olaf Stapledon (ed. Sam Moskowitz 1979 )
An Olaf Stapledon Reader (ed. , 1997)

References

Other websites


 Olaf Stapledon Archive at the University of Liverpool SF Hub
 Works at Project Gutenberg Australia

 Olaf Stapledon at the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame
  (including 1 "from old catalog" as William Olaf)
Digitized works by Olaf Stapledon at Toronto Public Library

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