Olaf Stapledon
Born
in Seacombe, Wallasey, Cheshire, England, The United Kingdom
May 10, 1886
Died
September 06, 1950
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Star Maker
232 editions
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1937
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Last and First Men
350 editions
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1930
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Sirius
7 editions
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1944
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Odd John
185 editions
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published
1935
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Last and First Men/Star Maker
7 editions
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1937
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Odd John and Sirius
12 editions
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published
1940
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Last Men in London
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55 editions
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1932
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The Flames: A Fantasy
55 editions
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1947
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Last and First Men / Last Men in London
5 editions
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1932
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Darkness and the Light
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27 editions
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1942
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“Philosophy is an amazing tissue of really fine thinking and incredible, puerile mistakes. It's like one of those rubber 'bones' they give dogs to chew, damned good for the mind's teeth, but as food - no bloody good at all.”
― Odd John
― Odd John
“Sitting there on the heather, on our planetary grain, I shrank from the abysses that opened up on every side, and in the future. The silent darkness, the featureless unknown, were more dread than all the terrors that imagination had mustered. Peering, the mind could see nothing sure, nothing in all human experience to be grasped as certain, except uncertainty itself; nothing but obscurity gendered by a thick haze of theories. Man's science was a mere mist of numbers; his philosophy but a fog of words. His very perception of this rocky grain and all its wonders was but a shifting and a lying apparition. Even oneself, that seeming-central fact, was a mere phantom, so deceptive, that the most honest of men must question his own honesty, so insubstantial that he must even doubt his very existence.”
― Star Maker
― Star Maker
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