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Author: Olaf Stapledon
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2013-04-09
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 0486316939
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTwo of the finest future histories ever written, each concerning a central question: If and when a superior being is introduced into a culture, how will either survive?
Author: Robert M. Philmus
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 2005-01-01
Total Pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9780853238997
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe former editor of Science Fiction Studies, Robert M. Philmus now casts his expert eye on a diverse range of short stories and novels by the premier creators of science fiction, including George Orwell, C. S. Lewis, and Ursula LeGuin. With essays on such masters of the genre as Stanislaw Lem, Kurt Vonnegut, and Philip K. Dick, the volume provides an in-depth textual examination of science fiction as a truly "revisionary" genre. Visions and Revisions will be of immense value to scholars of literature and science fiction studies.
Author: William Olaf Stapledon
Publisher:
Published: 2019-07-19
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9781081280734
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOdd John: A Story Between Jest and Earnest is a 1935 science fiction novel by the British author Olaf Stapledon.
Author: Olaf Stapledon
Publisher: DigiCat
Published: 2022-08-16
Total Pages: 216
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKDigiCat 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: Olaf Stapledon
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Published: 1936
Total Pages: 296
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe present story follows the life and deeds of a Super Human. He is the product of an evolutionary jump and graced with super human intelligence. This intelligence needs time to evolve and grow, so John maintain infant characteristic by a longer period than normal. He is in permanent conflict with his surroundings, mastering them is a hard task. In order to receive help he recruits/enthralls a family's friend, who is the narrator in this novel. John grows up and discovers he is not alone; there are other specimens of Homo Superior around the world. He sets out to search and recruit them for a unique project: establishing a Colony of his kind. Stapledon use the different anecdotes to illustrate his cogitations about human kind, religion, politic, justice, ethic and more, many more transcendental subjects. --Maximiliano F. Yofre at Amazon.com.
Author: Olaf Stapledon
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Published: 2021-04-12
Total Pages: 268
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Odd John: A Story Between 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 of John Wainwright, whose supernormal human mentality inevitably leads to conflict with normal human society and to the destruction of the utopian colony founded by John and other superhumans.The novel resonates with the ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche and the work of English writer J. D. Beresford, with an allusion to Beresford's superhuman child character of Victor Stott in The Hampdenshire Wonder (1911). As the devoted narrator remarks, John does not feel obliged to observe the restricted morality of Homo sapiens. Stapledon's recurrent vision of cosmic angst - that the universe may be indifferent to intelligence, no matter how spiritually refined - also gives the story added depth. Later explorations of the theme of the superhuman and of the incompatibility of the normal with the supernormal occur in the works of Stanislaw Lem, Frank Herbert, Wilmar Shiras, Robert Heinlein and Vernor Vinge, among others"
Author: Thomas D. Clareson
Publisher: Popular Press
Published: 1976
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780879721206
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBringing together a group of original essays concerning major writers of science fiction whose careers had begun by the end of World War II, this volume covers Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, C. L. Moore, Clifford D. Simak, Olaf Stapledon, Kurt Vonnegut, and Jack Williamson.
Author: Katharine Rogers
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2010-04
Total Pages: 295
ISBN-13: 1450208738
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDogs have shared our homes for as long as we can remember, and, in return, have guarded us, helped us hunt, and herded our livestock. They have generally been our friends as well; that is what most of them are today. Canine friends give us uncritical affection, free of the ambivalence that plagues human relationships. Dogs figure prominently in literature, starting with Homer's Argus, the hound who remembered Odyssues after twenty years. Victorian novels are full of vivid canine characters. "Ms. Rogers is impressively thorough...best of all, the author knows and respects dogs." Steve Goode, Washington Times
Author: William Olaf Stapledon
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: 2021-04-24
Total Pages: 264
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKOdd John: A Story Between 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 of John Wainwright, whose super normal human mentality inevitably leads to conflict with normal human society and to the destruction of the Utopian colony founded by John and other superhuman.
Author: Brett Cooke
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2022-06-08
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9004455019
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Fantastic Other is a carefully assembled collection of essays on the increasingly significant question of alterity in modern fantasy, the ways in which the understanding and construction of the Other shapes both our art and our imagination. The collection takes a unique perspective, seeing alterity not merely as a social issue but as a biological one. Our fifteen essays cover the problems posed by the Other, which, after all, go well beyond the bounds of any single critical perspective. With this in mind, we have selected studies to show how insights from deconstruction, Marxism, feminism, and Freudian, Jungian and evolutionary psychology help us understand an issue so central to the act of reading.
