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Olaf Stapledon


Born
in Seacombe, Wallasey, Cheshire, England, The United Kingdom
May 10, 1886

Died
September 06, 1950

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William 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, Stanisław Lem, C. S. Lewis and John Maynard Smith and indirectly influenced many others, contributing many ideas to the world of science fiction.
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Average rating: 3.84 · 20,857 ratings · 2,100 reviews · 87 distinct works â€� Similar authors
Star Maker

3.91 avg rating — 8,983 ratings — published 1937 — 232 editions
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Last and First Men

3.79 avg rating — 6,669 ratings — published 1930 — 350 editions
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Sirius

3.88 avg rating — 1,770 ratings — published 1944 — 7 editions
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Odd John

3.69 avg rating — 1,654 ratings — published 1935 — 185 editions
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Last and First Men/Star Maker

3.99 avg rating — 596 ratings — published 1937 — 7 editions
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Odd John and Sirius

3.95 avg rating — 374 ratings — published 1940 — 12 editions
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Last Men in London

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3.54 avg rating — 122 ratings — published 1932 — 55 editions
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The Flames: A Fantasy

3.38 avg rating — 85 ratings — published 1947 — 55 editions
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Darkness and the Light

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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.”
Olaf Stapledon, Odd John

“Men endured so much for war, but for peace they dared nothing.”
Olaf Stapledon, The Seed and the Flower
tags: peace, war

“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.”
Olaf Stapledon, Star Maker

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