Olavus Stapledon

Ultima navium traiectoriarum statio apud Seacombe, vicum ubi Stapledon natus est.

Gulielmus Olavus, vulgo William Olaf, Stapledon (natus Seacombe prope Wallasey in Cestrensi comitatu Angliae die 10 Maii 1886; mortuus Caldy in proximo eiusdem comitatus die 6 Septembris 1950) fuit philosophus, scriptor mythistoriarum de rebus futuris, auctor librorum commentariorum, et poeta Anglicus. Anno 2014 in Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame eius memoria inducta est.

Bello mundano primo, detrectator militiae in exercitu Britannico meruit, cum arceram agitaret. Gradus PhD in philosophia apud Universitatem Liverpoliensi anno 1925 ei concessus est.

Opera

Fictio

• Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future (1930) ISBN 1-85798-806-X.
• Last Men in London (1932) ISBN 0-417-02750-8.
• Odd John: A Story Between Jest and Earnest (1935) ISBN 0-413-32900-3.
• Star Maker (1937) ISBN 0-8195-6692-6.
• Darkness and the Light (1942) ISBN 0-88355-121-7.
• Old Man in New World (fabula brevis, 1944).
• Sirius: A Fantasy of Love and Discord (1944) ISBN 0-575-07057-9.
• Death into Life (1946).
• The Flames: A Fantasy (1947).
• A Man Divided (1950) ISBN 0-19-503087-7.
• Four Encounters (1976) ISBN 0-905220-01-3.
• Nebula Maker (manuscripta Star Maker, 1976) ISBN 0-905220-06-4.

Non fictio

• A Modern Theory of Ethics: A study of the Relations of Ethics and Psychology (1929)
• Waking World (1934)
• Saints and Revolutionaries (1939)
• New Hope for Britain (1939)
• Philosophy and Living, 2 vol. (1939)
• Beyond the "Isms" (1942)
• Seven Pillars of Peace (1944)
• Youth and Tomorrow (1946)
• Interplanetary Man (1948)
• The Opening of the Eyes (ed. Agnes Z. Stapledon, 1954)

Poemata

• Latter-Day Psalms (1914)

Collectiones

• Worlds of Wonder: Three Tales of Fantasy (1949).
• To the End of Time: the Best of Olaf Stapledon (ed. Basil Davenport, 1953) ISBN 0-8398-2312-6.
• Far Future Calling: Uncollected Science Fiction and Fantasies of Olaf Stapledon (ed. Sam Moskowitz, 1979) ISBN 1-880418-06-1.
• An Olaf Stapledon Reader (ed. Robert Crossley, 1997).

Bibliographia

• Crossley, Robert. 1994. Olaf Stapledon: Speaking for the Future. Syracusis: Syracuse University Press. ISBN 0815602812, ISBN 0815602812.
• Fiedler, Leslie A. 1983. Olaf Stapledon: A Man Divided. Oxoniae et Novi Eboraci: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0195030869, ISBN 0195030877.
• Kinnaird, John. 1986. "Stapledon,(William) Olaf." Twentieth-Century Science-Fiction Writers, ed, Curtis C. Smith, 693–96. Sicagi: St. James. ISBN 0912289279.
• Sawyer, Andy. 2010. "[William] Olaf Stapledon (1886-1950)." In Fifty Key Figures in Science Fiction, ed. Mark Bould et al., 205–210. Novi Eboraci: Routledge, 2010. ISBN 1135285349.

Nexus externi

Vicicitatio habet citationes quae ad Olavus Stapledon spectant.

• Olaf Stapledon Archive. Universitas Liverpolii.
• Olaf Stapledon Online Archive.
• Opera apud Propositum Gutenberg Australianum.
• De Olavo Stapledon. Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame.