[英文畅销书] 英国科幻作家Olaf Stapledon1886-1950作品集 Olaf, 英国, 作品集, 科幻, Stapledon

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About Olaf Stapledon


Completely separate from the pulp sf tradition, yet a tremendous influence upon it, the five novels of the philosopher Olaf Stapledon were a fictional popularisation of his ideas about the unimportance of the individual except through fulfilment in community life. Two of them First and Last Men and Star Maker adopt vast historical perspectives to show the entire history of our humanity and its greatly altered descendants and of the whole history of intelligent life in the galaxy; their sense of scale, and their demonstration of a tragic view of life worked out across aeons, have affected much subsequent space opera--they are also prodigal with insights and story ideas. Last Men in London is less a narrative than a perspective on contemporary life and mores by one of the Neptunian superintelligences of the earlier book. Odd John and Sirius are both tales of extraordinary individuals destroyed by mediocrity--the first a superintelligent human genius and the second a dog of high human intelligence; both are bracingly depressing books in which inevitable tragedy is left to speak for itself.

Novels
Last and First Men (1930)



Last Men in London (1932)


Odd John: A Story Between Jest and Earnest (1935)



Star Maker (1937)



Darkness and the Light (1942)


Old Man in New World (1944)


Sirius (1944)


Death into Life (1946)


The Flames (1947)


A Man Divided (1950)


The Opening of the Eyes (1954)

Nebula Maker (1976)


Four Encounters (1976)



Omnibus
Odd John and Sirius: Two Science Fiction Novels (1940)
Worlds of Wonder (1949)
Last and First men and Star Marker: Two Science Fiction Novels (1972)

Collections
To the End of Time (1975)


Nebula Maker and Four Encounters (1983)


Far Future Calling (1986)


An Olaf Stapledon Reader (1996)



Non fiction
Talking across the World: The Love Letters of Olaf Stapledon and Agnes Miller, 1913-1919 (1961)

Anthologies containing stories by Olaf Stapledon
Beyond Time and Space (1950)
The Book of Fantasy (1988)
The Road to Science Fiction 5: The British Way (1998)
The Unexplained: Stories of the Paranormal (1998)


Books about Olaf Stapledon-The Man Behind the Works


Short stories
The Flying Men (1930)   
The Story of John (1930)   
Nutrition (1932)   
Nautiloids (1937)   
The Star Maker (excerpt) (1937)   
Universal History (1937)   
The Reign of Darkness (1942)   
Old Man in a New World (1944)   
Sirius at Cambridge (1944)   
The Flames: A Fantasy (1947)   
A Modern Magician (1979)   
The Peak and the Town (1984)   
The Man Who Became a Tree

Collected Stories


Rare stories

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最初与最后的人，Last and First Men，话说（科幻）作家还没有进入集体未来恐惧症的年代里，写手们对人类的前景进行展望的时候，虽说也常常陷入念天地之悠悠的恐惧当中，但大体而言乐观主义的精神即便没有占据上风，至少还是存在的。儒勒凡尔纳自不必说，个人觉得即便是反乌托邦三巨头的骨子里也没有对人性和未来报以那么黑暗的想像，至于这位奥拉夫 斯塔普顿就更加不是了。小说写于二十世纪三十年代，故事从战火纷飞的二十世纪开始讲起，二十六世纪世界统合政府成立，第八个千年纪中能源耗尽导致黑暗时代重临，十万年后新文明诞生，旋即又毁灭于全球大战，第一代人类仅余三十五人，他们成为第二人类的祖先，第二人类进军了太阳系，但在一千万年后毁灭于火星殖民地发端的独立战争，然后第三人类建立，文明起起落落，故事终于十亿年后太阳毁灭之日，第十八人类在海王星轨道上将文明种子发射向银河深处，太阳系文明就此落幕。看这本书的时候，你经常会惊讶于这居然是七十五年前的人所写，其中瑰丽奇诡的想象、对地球大统、火星殖民地（还有后来被写到渣的独立战争）、人类突变等后世科幻小说、电影、漫画、动画中的重要元素进行的细致描写更是令人不敢相信作者竟然是一位货真价实的哲学家。此小说影响了后来的许多重要作家，包括莱姆、C.S.刘易斯、布莱恩 阿尔迪斯等大牛，还有阿瑟 C. 克拉克、阿西莫夫这些喜欢描写大尺度未来的人。另外，这位大牛的Star Maker更是公认比戴森还要早提出戴森球的作品。
　　

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《最后的人和最初的人》（Last And First Men, 1931）。这位英国哲学家描述了人类——或十七种不同人类——的未来二十亿年，从最初的到最后的。《星球缔造者》（The Star Maker, 1937）更富于幻想，贯穿整个宇宙和整个创造史；而《怪约翰》（Odd John, 1935）则对一个超人的出生和成长进行了深入内心的描述，并成为同类作品中最优秀的之一。

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科幻类实难少此.