Olaf Stapledon

Olaf Stapledon
Plaque to Olaf Stapledon, Simon's Bridge, Caldy, Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, Merseyside
Plaque to Olaf Stapledon, Simon's Bridge, Caldy, Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, Merseyside
Born(1886-05-10)10 May 1886
Seacombe, Wallasey, Cheshire, England, UK
Died6 September 1950(1950-09-06) (aged 64)
Caldy, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom
OccupationNovelist, philosopher
GenreScience fiction, philosophy
Notable worksStar Maker, Last and First Men, Odd John

William Olaf Stapledon (10 May 1886 – 6 September 1950) was a British philosopher and author of science fiction. 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) (ISBN 1-85798-806-X)
  • Last Men in London (1932) (ISBN 0-417-02750-8)
  • Odd John: A Story Between Jest and Earnest (1935) (ISBN 0-413-32900-3)
  • Star Maker (1937) (ISBN 0-8195-6692-6) First Edition cover by Bip Pares
  • Darkness and the Light (1942) (ISBN 0-88355-121-7)
  • Old Man in New World (short story, 1944)
  • Sirius: A Fantasy of Love and Discord (1944) (ISBN 0-575-07057-9)
  • Death into Life (1946)
  • The Flames: A Fantasy (1947)
  • A Man Divided (1950) (ISBN 0-19-503087-7)
  • Four Encounters (1976) (ISBN 0-905220-01-3)
  • Nebula Maker (drafts of Star Maker, 1976) (ISBN 0-905220-06-4)
  • 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

References

  1. ↑ 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) ISBN 1135285349.
  2. ↑ John Kinnaird, "Stapledon,(William) Olaf" in Curtis C. Smith, Twentieth-Century Science-Fiction Writers. Chicago, St. James, 1986. ISBN 0912289279 (pp. 693–6).

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