Böcker av Olaf Stapledon

First published nearly 70 years ago, this text is regarded as one of the most influential science fiction novels of the 20th century. Olaf Stapledon creates a history of the evolution of humankind over the next two billion years.

Adapted to film in 2020, starring Tilda Swinton.

An extraordinarily perceptive analysis of two possible future paths of humanity.

Olaf Stapledon, philosopher, novelist, educator and social activist, had an imagination unlike that of any other figure in modernist literature. This broad anthology includes a generous sample of his fictional gems, as well as other writings including essays, poems and letters.

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First scholarly edition of this 20th century science fiction masterpiece.

This masterpiece of science fiction is an imaginative, ambitious history of humanity's future that spans billions of years. A must-read for scholars of the genre, this 1930 epic abounds in prescient speculations.

'The most human of all Stapledon's novels' Brian Aldiss

The book that gave the world the term Homo superior.