Robert Crossley, ed. Talking Across the World: The Love Letters of Olaf Stapledon and Agnes Miller, 1913-1919. Hanover & London: New England UP, 1987. xlii + 382pp. $30.00 Few writers of SF have ...
In his science fiction classic Star Maker, he imagines a way to overcome fascism on a galactic scale. Olaf Stapledon, 1946.(Courtesy of the Victoria Gallery & Museum, University of Liverpool) The ...
Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon, published in 1937, is perhaps the most important work of science-fiction that, until recently, I had never heard of. Stapledon’s work is widely cited as being a major ...
The current flurry of interest in the SF novels of Olaf Stapledon may be traced to a chapter in Sam Moskowitz's Explorers of the Infinite (1963). Entitled "Olaf Stapledon: Cosmic Philosopher," the ...
The Wesleyan Early Classics of Science Fiction presents the first scholarly edition of Olaf Stapledon's 1937 masterpiece, Star Maker, edited by Patrick A. McCarthy. Physicist Freeman Dyson provides a ...
Professor of Palaeobiology, University of Leicester Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (Hayao Miyazaki, 1984) When I reread the science fiction I loved as a kid – Asimov, Clarke, Heinlein – I’m ...
Author Mohsin Hamid talks to Mark Lawson about a seminal work in the history of science fiction, Olaf Stapledon's epic Star Maker (1937), a book loved by Winston Churchill, C... Show more Author ...
It’s one of those literary friendships that seems unlikely on the surface, but then makes endless sense once you dig deeper: Virginia Woolf had a correspondence with Olaf Stapledon, and he inspired ...
The British philosopher and writer Olaf Stapledon (1886-1950) is one of the most influential science fiction writers of the 20th century. His books, however, have proved almost impossible to adapt.