William Olaf Stapledon (10 May 1886 – 6 September 1950) – known as Olaf Stapledon – was a British philosopher and author of science fiction. In 2014,...
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Dyson sphere (redirect from Stapledon-Dyson sphere)
more energy. The first modern imagining of such a structure was by Olaf Stapledon in his science fiction novel Star Maker (1937). The concept was later...
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alien species called the Qu. Inspired by the science fiction works of Olaf Stapledon and Edward Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman...
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Last and First Men (category Novels by Olaf Stapledon)
history" science fiction novel written in 1930 by the British author Olaf Stapledon. A work of unprecedented scale in the genre, it describes the history...
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Kösemen's favorite literature growing up was the science fiction books of Olaf Stapledon, books on obscure cinema by Pete Tombs, and books part of the former...
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Stapledon may refer to: George Stapledon, Grassland scientist and environmentalist Olaf Stapledon, British philosopher and author of several works of...
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Star Maker (category Novels by Olaf Stapledon)
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...
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Nebula Maker (category Novels by Olaf Stapledon)
Nebula Maker is a science fiction novel by Olaf Stapledon and published posthumously by Bran's Head Books in 1976. It was written in the 1930s and discovered...
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politician and current Chancellor of Germany Olaf C. Seltzer (1877–1957), Danish-born American painter Olaf Stapledon (1886–1950), British author and historian...
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the 1930 science fiction novel of the same name by the English writer Olaf Stapledon. The film had its world premiere at the 70th Berlin International Film...
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British "scientific romance", and other writers in that mode, such as Olaf Stapledon, J. D. Beresford, S. Fowler Wright, and Naomi Mitchison, all drew on...
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Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon Last Men in London by Olaf Stapledon Odd John by Olaf Stapledon Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon Journey to the Center...
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energy-transferring shell had been created decades earlier by science fiction writer Olaf Stapledon in his 1937 novel Star Maker, a source which Dyson credited publicly...
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November 1928 issue of Amazing Stories in 1929; Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon in 1930; and The Conquest of Space by David Lasser in 1931. In his teens...
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Geddes Archibald MacLeish Hart Crane E. E. Cummings William Slater Brown Olaf Stapledon Sherwood Anderson John Dos Passos John Steinbeck Ford Madox Ford William...
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been inspired by work of the philosopher and science fiction author Olaf Stapledon. Borges's vision of "forking paths" has been cited as inspiration by...
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Odd John (category Novels by Olaf Stapledon)
Jest and Earnest is a 1935 science fiction novel by the British author Olaf Stapledon. The novel explores the theme of the Übermensch (superman) in the character...
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for reflection". Transhuman Posthuman Last and First Men (1930) by Olaf Stapledon – a book which similarly explores future humans and their descendants...
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by Napoleon. C.I. Defontenay's Star ou Psi de Cassiopée (1854), an Olaf Stapledon-like chronicle of an alien world and civilization. Slovak author Gustáv...
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Tillyard and Max Plowman. He kept up a lengthy correspondence with Olaf Stapledon. Other friends were David Lindsay, Frank Dobson, and Charles le Gai...
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by Jack Vance Lankar of Callisto by Lin Carter Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon The Last Castle by Jack Vance The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin...
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Sirius (novel) (category Novels by Olaf Stapledon)
a 1944 science fiction novel by the British philosopher and author Olaf Stapledon, whose title character is a dog named Sirius with humanlike intelligence...
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Man Cordwainer Smith 1-85798-819-1 1928–1993 11 Last and First Men Olaf Stapledon 10 June 1999 1-85798-806-X 1930 12 Earth Abides George R. Stewart 1-85798-821-3...
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Egg (1980) Modern movement (1981–present) Notable authors Wayne Barlowe Dougal Dixon C. M. Kosemen Olaf Stapledon Gerolf Steiner Peter Ward H. G. Wells...
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Last Men in London (category Novels by Olaf Stapledon)
British writer Olaf Stapledon. The narrator is the same member of the eighteenth and final human species who purportedly induced Stapledon to write Last...
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Quadratic (collection), a 1953 collection of science fiction novels by Olaf Stapledon and Murray Leinster All pages with titles beginning with Quadratic All...
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extrapolates from rules; Savater cites the works of Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, Olaf Stapledon, and Rendezvous with Rama as examples. In the introduction to the anthology...
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Darkness and the Light (category Novels by Olaf Stapledon)
science fiction novel by British writer Olaf Stapledon. In this work written in 1941, during World War II, Stapledon projects two separate futures for humanity...
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Death into Life (category Novels by Olaf Stapledon)
Life is a 1946 novel by British writer Olaf Stapledon. Not strictly science fiction (the genre into which Stapledon's works are usually classified), the novel...
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The Flames: A Fantasy (category Novels by Olaf Stapledon)
Fantasy") is a science fiction novella by British writer and philosopher Olaf Stapledon. It was published by Secker and Warburg in 1947. The story takes the...
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