
Olaf Stapledon
By the Author
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Last Men in London
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…
Last And First Men
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.…
Star Maker
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…