Olaf Stapledon

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  • Bibliography:
    26 Books
  • First Book:
    June 1964
  • Latest Book:
    September 2021
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Book List in Order: 26 titles

  • Sirius

    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....

  • Odd John and Sirius

    In the list of modern science fiction personalities, the late British philosopher and novelist W. Olaf Stapledon is prominent. Last and First Men and Starmaker are generally considered to be the finest future histories ever written, the gage by which...

  • Last and First Men and Last Men in London

  • Darkness and the Light

    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....

  • Star Maker

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    This bold exploration of the cosmos ventures into intelligent star clusters and mingles among alien races for a memorable vision of infinity. Cited as a key influence by science-fiction masters such as Doris Lessing, this classic has left its mark no...

  • Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future

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    Epic Science Fiction Classic! "No book before or since has ever had such an impact on my imagination." Arthur C Clarke - A work of unprecedented scale in the genre, it describes the history of humanity from the present onwards across 2 billion years ...

  • An Olaf Stapledon Reader

    Olaf Stapledon (1886-1950), philosopher, novelist, educator, and social activist had an imagination unlike that of any other figure in modernist literature. Along with H.G. Wells he is remembered as one of the most original and influential pioneers o...

  • Last and First Men

    OF all the great men of action who since the Conquest have guided the course of English policy, it is probable that none is less known to the reader of history than Richard Neville Earl of Warwick and Salisbury. The only man of anything approaching h...

  • Worlds Of Wonder



  • Last and First Men and Star Maker

    The greatest future histories in science fiction. In Last and First Men the protagonist is mankind in an ultimate definition — intelligence. Star Maker, in a sense its sequel, is concerned with the history of intelligence in the entire cosmos....

  • Last Men in London

    Last Men in London follows an Englishman named Paul, from childhood through service with an ambulance crew in the First World War (mirroring Stapledon's own personal history) to adult life. Olaf Stapledon's previous science-fictio...

  • Odd John

    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 s...

  • Last and First MenA Story of the near and far future

  • The Flames

    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 ...

  • Four Encounters

    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 meeting...

  • Nebula Maker

    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 nebul...

  • Complete Science Fantasy Anthologies of Olaf Stapledon

    A British philosopher and author of several influential works of science fiction. contributing many ideas to the world of science fiction. The "supermind" composed of many individual consciousnesses forms a recurring theme in his...

  • Death into Life

    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....

  • Olaf Stapledon, Novels and Short Stories

    William Olaf Stapledon (10 May 1886 â€" 6 September 1950) -- known as Olaf Stapledon -- was a British philosopher and author of several influential works of science fiction. Stapledon's writings directly influenced Arthur C. Clarke, Brian Aldiss,...



  • The Seed and the Flower

    This early work by Olaf Stapledon was originally published in 1916 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Seed and the Flower' is a science fiction short story. William Olaf Stapledon was born on 10th May...

  • A Man Divided

    Probing the recurrent themes and images of Stapledon's novels -- which include Last and First Men, Odd John, Star Maker, and Sirius -- Leslie A. Fiedler brilliantly illuminates the complexity and richness that underlie Stapledon's fiction. As Fiedler...

  • Far Future Calling

    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 directl...

  • Sirius: A Fantasy of Love and Discord

    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....

  • Odd John A Story Between Jest and Earnest

    Odd John A Story Between Jest and Earnest Olaf Stapledon 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 Ãœbermensch (superman) in the character of J...

  • Saints and Revolutionaries

    Saints and Revolutionaries Olaf Stapledon We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessibl...

  • The Seed and the Flower Illustrated

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Olaf Stapledon has published 26 books.

Olaf Stapledon does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Seed and the Flower Illustrated, was published in September 2021.

The first book by Olaf Stapledon, Sirius, was published in June 1964.

No. Olaf Stapledon does not write books in series.
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