Author: Olaf Stapledon
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486316939
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Two of the finest future histories ever written, each concerning a central question: If and when a superior being is introduced into a culture, how will either survive?
Odd John and Sirius
Author: Olaf Stapledon
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486316939
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Two of the finest future histories ever written, each concerning a central question: If and when a superior being is introduced into a culture, how will either survive?
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486316939
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Two of the finest future histories ever written, each concerning a central question: If and when a superior being is introduced into a culture, how will either survive?
Odd John
Author: William Olaf Stapledon
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781081280734
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Odd John: A Story Between Jest and Earnest is a 1935 science fiction novel by the British author Olaf Stapledon.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781081280734
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Odd John: A Story Between Jest and Earnest is a 1935 science fiction novel by the British author Olaf Stapledon.
Odd John
Author: Olaf Stapledon
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Odd John" by Olaf Stapledon. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Odd John" by Olaf Stapledon. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Visions and Re-visions
Author: Robert M. Philmus
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 9780853238997
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
The former editor of Science Fiction Studies, Robert M. Philmus now casts his expert eye on a diverse range of short stories and novels by the premier creators of science fiction, including George Orwell, C. S. Lewis, and Ursula LeGuin. With essays on such masters of the genre as Stanislaw Lem, Kurt Vonnegut, and Philip K. Dick, the volume provides an in-depth textual examination of science fiction as a truly "revisionary" genre. Visions and Revisions will be of immense value to scholars of literature and science fiction studies.
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 9780853238997
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
The former editor of Science Fiction Studies, Robert M. Philmus now casts his expert eye on a diverse range of short stories and novels by the premier creators of science fiction, including George Orwell, C. S. Lewis, and Ursula LeGuin. With essays on such masters of the genre as Stanislaw Lem, Kurt Vonnegut, and Philip K. Dick, the volume provides an in-depth textual examination of science fiction as a truly "revisionary" genre. Visions and Revisions will be of immense value to scholars of literature and science fiction studies.
Odd John
Author: Olaf Stapledon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Genius
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
The present story follows the life and deeds of a Super Human. He is the product of an evolutionary jump and graced with super human intelligence. This intelligence needs time to evolve and grow, so John maintain infant characteristic by a longer period than normal. He is in permanent conflict with his surroundings, mastering them is a hard task. In order to receive help he recruits/enthralls a family's friend, who is the narrator in this novel. John grows up and discovers he is not alone; there are other specimens of Homo Superior around the world. He sets out to search and recruit them for a unique project: establishing a Colony of his kind. Stapledon use the different anecdotes to illustrate his cogitations about human kind, religion, politic, justice, ethic and more, many more transcendental subjects. --Maximiliano F. Yofre at Amazon.com.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Genius
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
The present story follows the life and deeds of a Super Human. He is the product of an evolutionary jump and graced with super human intelligence. This intelligence needs time to evolve and grow, so John maintain infant characteristic by a longer period than normal. He is in permanent conflict with his surroundings, mastering them is a hard task. In order to receive help he recruits/enthralls a family's friend, who is the narrator in this novel. John grows up and discovers he is not alone; there are other specimens of Homo Superior around the world. He sets out to search and recruit them for a unique project: establishing a Colony of his kind. Stapledon use the different anecdotes to illustrate his cogitations about human kind, religion, politic, justice, ethic and more, many more transcendental subjects. --Maximiliano F. Yofre at Amazon.com.
Odd John
Author: William Olaf Stapledon
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781719571678
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Odd John: A Story Between Jest and Earnest by William Olaf Stapledon
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781719571678
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Odd John: A Story Between Jest and Earnest by William Olaf Stapledon
Odd John
Author: William Olaf Stapledon
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
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 Übermensch (superman) in the character of John Wainwright, whose super normal human mentality inevitably leads to conflict with normal human society and to the destruction of the Utopian colony founded by John and other superhuman.
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
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 Übermensch (superman) in the character of John Wainwright, whose super normal human mentality inevitably leads to conflict with normal human society and to the destruction of the Utopian colony founded by John and other superhuman.
Voices for the Future
Author: Thomas D. Clareson
Publisher: Popular Press
ISBN: 9780879721206
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Bringing together a group of original essays concerning major writers of science fiction whose careers had begun by the end of World War II, this volume covers Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, C. L. Moore, Clifford D. Simak, Olaf Stapledon, Kurt Vonnegut, and Jack Williamson.
Publisher: Popular Press
ISBN: 9780879721206
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Bringing together a group of original essays concerning major writers of science fiction whose careers had begun by the end of World War II, this volume covers Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, C. L. Moore, Clifford D. Simak, Olaf Stapledon, Kurt Vonnegut, and Jack Williamson.
Odd John Annotated
Author: William Olaf Stapledon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Odd John: A Story Between Jest and Earnest is a 1935 science fiction novel by the British author Olaf Stapledon.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Odd John: A Story Between Jest and Earnest is a 1935 science fiction novel by the British author Olaf Stapledon.
First Friend
Author: Katharine Rogers
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1450208738
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
Dogs have shared our homes for as long as we can remember, and, in return, have guarded us, helped us hunt, and herded our livestock. They have generally been our friends as well; that is what most of them are today. Canine friends give us uncritical affection, free of the ambivalence that plagues human relationships. Dogs figure prominently in literature, starting with Homer's Argus, the hound who remembered Odyssues after twenty years. Victorian novels are full of vivid canine characters. "Ms. Rogers is impressively thorough...best of all, the author knows and respects dogs." Steve Goode, Washington Times
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1450208738
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
Dogs have shared our homes for as long as we can remember, and, in return, have guarded us, helped us hunt, and herded our livestock. They have generally been our friends as well; that is what most of them are today. Canine friends give us uncritical affection, free of the ambivalence that plagues human relationships. Dogs figure prominently in literature, starting with Homer's Argus, the hound who remembered Odyssues after twenty years. Victorian novels are full of vivid canine characters. "Ms. Rogers is impressively thorough...best of all, the author knows and respects dogs." Steve Goode, Washington Times