Odd John and Sirius
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| Rating | : | 4.17 (996 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0486211339 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-08-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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About the AuthorA preeminent figure of British science fiction, Olaf Stapledon (1886-1950) wrote several influential novels. G. Praised by H. Wells, Aldous Huxley, and Virginia Woolf, Stapledon's works introduced such innovative concepts as genetic engineering and terraforming.
rickylgarcia said Three Stars. The ideas are breathtaking--the style is tedious :(. Painfully movingwonderfully frightening. A Customer Never before have I read such a book that encompasses so much, in such a wonderful way. I've only read the second half of the volume, the strange, coldly scientific fairy tale of Sirius. After what I've read there, I'm not quite sure I'm ready to read Odd John. In due time I shall, but for now, I'll have to be contented with mulling over the life of Sirius, sitting, thinking, reflecting on its harsh mysticism.. "Tales about a Superman and a Superdog" according to Stefan Jones. A thousands thanks to Dover for keeping Olaf Stapledon's novels in print._Odd John_John is a terribly precocious and at first frighteningly amoral child born to only modestly intelligent parents. With time, he learns to master his superhuman intelligence and develop telepathic powers which allow him to find others of his kind. By the end of the book, he and his band of superhuman mutants are trying to create a new civilizat
Last and First Men and Starmaker are generally considered to be the finest future histories ever written, the gage by which all earlier and later works are measured. The central question is: if and when a superior being is introduced into a culture, how will either survive? Stapledon’s answers are by no means romantic fantasies; they are the pathetic, realistic conclusions which we, one day, may be forced to accept.Odd John is the definitive fictionalization of the mutated superman. After a strange birth and childhood, John is suddenly compelled to accept the fact that he is different. What is more, he has to decide what to do with his gifts. Stapledon uses his powers — intellectual, imaginative, and observant — to detail the conflict in its very "human" form.Odd John and Sirius are something else besides explorations of superbeings. If his writing, as he says in the subtitle to Odd John, is between jest and earnest, his sympathies are divided between the conflicting forces of man and superman. In the list of modern s
Wells, Aldous Huxley, and Virginia Woolf, Stapledon's works introduced such innovative concepts as genetic engineering and terraforming.. A preeminent figure of British science fiction, Olaf Stapledon (1886-1950) wrote several influential novels. G. Praised by H