Olaf Stapledon – författare
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Last and First Men
Häftad, 2024
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"No book before or since ever had such an impact on my imagination." - Arthur C. Clarke Last and First Men is an insightful, revolutionary account of future history across two billion years. Written by British science fiction writer Olaf Stapledon, this novel details the emergence of 18 distinct …
Stjärnskaparen
E-bok, 2023
79 kr
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Boken är nyöversatt av KG Johansson. Han har även skrivit en biografi över författaren, samt kommentarer till texten. Stjärnskaparen ingår i TiraTiger Förlags klassikerserie.
Stjärnskaparen
Häftad, 2021
229 kr
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Boken är nyöversatt av KG Johansson. Han har även skrivit en biografi över författaren, samt kommentarer till texten. Stjärnskaparen ingår i TiraTiger Förlags klassikerserie.
Konstige John
Häftad, 2024
191 kr
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Engelsmannen Olaf Stapledon (1886 – 1950) är mest känd för sina romaner Last and First Men (De sista och de första människorna) och Star Maker (Stjärnskaparen) men skrev flera romaner till. De mest omtalade av dessa är Sirius – om en hund som föds med mänsklig intelligens – och Odd John (Konstige …
Star Maker
E-bok, 2021
96 kr
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'A prodigious novel ... Stapledon's literary imagination was boundless' Jorge Luis BorgesA lasting influence on successive generations of science fiction writers and on the physicist Freeman Dyson, this poetic, philosophical tale of one man's unexpected voyage through the universe is imbued with a …
Stjärnskaparen
Inbunden, 2027
243 kr
Kommande
En kväll lämnar berättaren sin kropp och förs – som ren medvetandeström – ut över jorden, vidare mot stjärnorna. Resan blir en svindlande kartläggning av kosmos: från ensamma varelser på frusna planeter till kollektiva hjärnor, världssinnen och galaktiska civilisationer; från livets första trevande …
Last And First Men
E-bok, 2012
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One of the most extraordinary, imaginative and ambitious novels of the century: a history of the evolution of humankind over the next 2 billion years. Among all science fiction writers Olaf Stapledon stands alone for the sheer scope and ambition of his work. First published in 1930, Last and First …
Last and First Men, abridged edition
A Story of the Near and Far Future
Av Olaf Stapledon, Matthew de Abaitua
Häftad, 2026
232 kr
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A dazzling work of science fiction to which Dune, the Foundation trilogy, and 2001: A Space Odyssey owe a major debt.Narrated telepathically by one of the Last Men, Olaf Stapledon’s epic history of the future caused a literary sensation when it first appeared in 1930. Over the course of two billion …
Sirius
Häftad, 2011
144 kr
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Sirius is Thomas Trelone's great experiment - a huge, handsome dog with the brain and intelligence of a human being. Raised and educated in Trelone's own family alongside Plaxy, his youngest daughter, Sirius is a truly remarkable and gifted creature. His relationship with the Trelones, particularly …
Odd John
Häftad, 2012
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John Wainwright is a freak, a human mutation with an extraordinary intelligence which is both awesome and frightening to behold. Ordinary humans are mere playthings to him. And Odd John has a plan to create a new order on Earth, a new supernormal species. But the world is not ready for such a …
Last Men in London
E-bok, 2013
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The sequel to Last and First Men , Olaf Stapledon''s great classic work of science fiction. In Last Men in London the author follows up the themes of his earlier masterpiece in presenting a Neptunian ''last man''s'' views on our twentieth-century world, views informed by the huge dimensions of …
Odd John
E-bok, 2012
45 kr
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John Wainwright is a freak, a human mutation with an extraordinary intelligence which is both awesome and frightening to behold. Ordinary humans are mere playthings to him. And Odd John has a plan - to create a new order on Earth, a new supernormal species. But the world is not ready for such a …
Star Maker
E-bok, 2011
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One moment a man sits on a suburban hill, gazing curiously at the stars. The next, he is whirling through the firmament, and perhaps the most remarkable of all science fiction journeys has begun. Even Stapledon''s other great work, LAST AND FIRST MEN, pales in ambition next to STAR MAKER, which …
Darkness and the Light
E-bok, 2013
50 kr
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Stapledon projects two separate futures for humanity, depending not on the outcome of World War II but on the failure or success of a future "Tibetan Renaissance" to influence the temper and ideology of the militaristic empires that threaten it.
Sirius
E-bok, 2012
40 kr
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Sirius is Thomas Trelone''s great experiment - a huge, handsome dog with the brain and intelligence of a human being. Raised and educated in Trelone''s own family alongside Plaxy, his youngest daughter, Sirius is a truly remarkable and gifted creature. His relationship with the Trelones, …
Death into Life
E-bok, 2014
50 kr
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A bomber is killed in battle along with all of his companions; but something wakes in his dying, which is first a spirit bomber-crew, then the spirit of all those killed in battle, then the spirit of man, the cosmos and the Universal Spirit.
Flames
E-bok, 2013
51 kr
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An introductory note seems called for to explain to the reader the origin of the following strange document, which I have received from a friend with a view to publication. The author has given it the form of a letter to myself, and he signs himself with his nickname, "Cass," which is an …
Four Encounters
E-bok, 2013
51 kr
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Four Encounters is an unfinished work by the writer and philosopher Olaf Stapledon, written in the late 1940s but only published 26 years after the author''s death. It takes place in contemporary (post World War II) Britain, and describes four meetings with various characters who are named for the …
Nebula Maker
E-bok, 2013
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The narrator of Nebula Maker stands on a hill and sees a vision that leads him to the birth of the universe. He witnesses the creation of the nebulae and the formation of galactic communities as well as the flowering of the personalities of the nebulae. The establishment of pacific and militaristic …
Far Future Calling
E-bok, 2015
51 kr
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Science fiction has its immortals - authors whose impact was so tremendous that they belong in a class by themselves. Olaf Stapledon extended the boundaries of science fiction to the infinite, and there are few of the major authors who do not directly or indirectly owe him a great debt. This volume …
Star Maker
Häftad, 2026
111 kr
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One of the most high acclaimed novel in science fiction, Star Maker takes readers on a fascinating journey across time and space. The human, though disembodied, narrator explores planets, nebulae and universes, describing them in exquisite detail like a guide to the galactic. On his travels, he …
