Sirius is Thomas Trelone's great experiment-a huge, handsome dog with the brain and intelligence of a human being. Raised and educated in Trelone's own family alongside Plaxy, his youngest daughter, Sirius is a truly remarkable and gifted creature. His relationship with the Trelones, particularly with Plaxy, is deep and close, and his inquiring mind ranges across the spectrum of human knowledge and experience. But Sirius isn't human and the conflicts and inner turmoil that torture him cannot be resolved.

Sirius

Stapledon,olaf

Literature & Fiction

Penguin??Books

Last and First Men and Last Men in London

This 1937 successor to Last and First Men offers another entrancing speculative history of the future. Cited as a key influence by science-fiction masters such as Doris Lessing, its bold exploration of the cosmos ventures into intelligent star clusters and mingles among alien races for a memorable vision of infinity.

Star Maker

Classics

'A prodigious novel ... Stapledon's literary imagination was boundless' Jorge Luis Borges\nA lasting influence on successive generations of science fiction writers and on the physicist Freeman Dyson, this poetic, philosophical tale of one man's unexpected voyage through the universe is imbued with a sense of mystery and vast cosmic loneliness.\n'The most wonderful novel I have ever read ... Star Maker remains light years ahead' Brian Aldiss\n'Probably the most powerful work of imagination ever written' Arthur C. Clarke\n'A unique genius' Doris Lessing\n'One of the most creative thinkers of our time' Greg Bear

Star Maker: Olaf Stapledon (Penguin Science Fiction)

Literary

Penguin Classics

Two posthumously discovered works by the late British philosopher and science-fiction master envision the nebulae as intelligent beings and engage a narrator in debate with four prototypical characters

Nebula Maker and Four Encounters

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

Dodd, Mead

1983 1st US Pbk Ed Dodd, Mead 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Nebula Maker & Four Encounters

A science fiction classic from Olaf Stapledon.

Last and First Men

Short Stories & Anthologies

Littlehampton Book Services Ltd.

Widely regarded as one of the true classics of science fiction, Star Maker is a poetic and deeply philosophical work. The story details the mental journey of an unnamed narrator, who is transported not only to other worlds but also other galaxies and parallel universes, until he eventually becomes part of the "cosmic mind." First published in 1937, Olaf Stapledon's descriptions of alien life are a political commentary on human life in the turbulent inter-war years. The book challenges preconceived notions of intelligence and awareness, and ultimately argues for a broadened perspective that would free us from culturally ingrained thought and our inevitable anthropomorphism. This is the first scholarly edition of a book that influenced such writers as C.S. Lewis and Arthur C. Clarke and which Jorge Luis Borges called "a prodigious novel."

Magna Books

The greatest future histories in science fiction. In Last and First Men the protagonist is "mankind" in an ultimate definition — intelligence. Star Maker, in a sense its sequel, is concerned with the history of intelligence in the entire cosmos.

Last and First Men and Star Maker : Two Science Fiction Novels

Dover Publications

"No book before or since has ever had such an impact upon my imagination," declared Arthur C. Clarke of Last and First Men. This masterpiece of science fiction by British philosopher and writer Olaf Stapledon (1886–1950) is an imaginative, ambitious history of humanity's future that spans billions of years. Together with its follow-up, Star Maker, it is regarded as the standard by which all earlier and later future histories are measured. The protagonist of this compelling novel is humanity itself, stripped down to sheer intelligence. It evolves through the ages: rising to pinnacles of civilization, teetering on the brink of extinction, surviving onslaughts from other planets and a decline in solar energy, and constantly developing new forms, new senses, and new intellectual abilities. From the present to five billion years into the future, this romance of humanity abounds in profound and imaginative thought.

Last and First Men (Dover Literature: Science Fiction/Fantasy)

Genre Fiction

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Sirius

Last and First Men and Last Men in London

Star Maker

Star Maker: Olaf Stapledon (Penguin Science Fiction)

Nebula Maker and Four Encounters

Nebula Maker & Four Encounters

Last and First Men

Star Maker

Last and First Men and Star Maker : Two Science Fiction Novels

Last and First Men (Dover Literature: Science Fiction/Fantasy)