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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?
Author : Olaf Stapledon
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 18,69 MB
Release : 2013-04-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0486316939
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?
Author : Olaf Stapledon
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File Size : 25,23 MB
Release : 1979-01-01
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ISBN : 9780844646077
Author : Olaf Stapledon
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,49 MB
Release : 2023-02
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Author : Olaf Stapledon
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Page : 309 pages
File Size : 47,29 MB
Release : 1936
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Author : Olaf Stapledon
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 25,9 MB
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Fiction
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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.
Author : Olaf Stapledon
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Page : 268 pages
File Size : 24,69 MB
Release : 2021-04-12
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"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 supernormal human mentality inevitably leads to conflict with normal human society and to the destruction of the utopian colony founded by John and other superhumans.The novel resonates with the ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche and the work of English writer J. D. Beresford, with an allusion to Beresford's superhuman child character of Victor Stott in The Hampdenshire Wonder (1911). As the devoted narrator remarks, John does not feel obliged to observe the restricted morality of Homo sapiens. Stapledon's recurrent vision of cosmic angst - that the universe may be indifferent to intelligence, no matter how spiritually refined - also gives the story added depth. Later explorations of the theme of the superhuman and of the incompatibility of the normal with the supernormal occur in the works of Stanislaw Lem, Frank Herbert, Wilmar Shiras, Robert Heinlein and Vernor Vinge, among others"
Author : William Olaf Stapledon
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Page : 188 pages
File Size : 23,6 MB
Release : 2019-07-19
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ISBN : 9781081280734
Odd John: A Story Between Jest and Earnest is a 1935 science fiction novel by the British author Olaf Stapledon.
Author : William Olaf Stapledon
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 27,93 MB
Release : 2021-04-30
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Odd John (subtitled A Story Between Jest and Earnest) deals with one of the most pervasive questions of science fiction: How will humanity react when confronted with a being of superior intelligence? The narrator is writing a biography of John Wainwright, a mutant who represents the next step of evolution, Homo superior. The narrator begins by describing John's odd appearance, precocious intelligence, and early education. Too disruptive to attend school, "Odd" John masters specific subjects, such as mathematics and biology, as they interest him. When a neighborhood boy beats John, the young prodigy becomes obsessed with two ambitions: to become physically powerful and to "understand his fellow human beings." He attains the first ambition, using his strength to thrash the boy who hurt him.
Author : William Olaf Stapledon
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Page : 264 pages
File Size : 35,87 MB
Release : 2020-12-07
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Odd John: A Story Between Jest and Earnest is a 1935 science fiction novel by the British author Olaf Stapledon.
Author : William Olaf Stapledon
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Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,37 MB
Release : 2021-06-09
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Odd John: A Story Between Jest and Earnest is a 1935 science fiction novel by the British author Olaf Stapledon.