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(William) Olaf Stapledon | | Variant Name: |
Olaf Stapledon, William Olaf Stapledon | | Birth Date: |
May 10, 1886 | | Death Date: |
September 6, 1950 | | Nationality: |
British | | Gender: |
Male |
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 Biography of (William) Olaf Stapledon
7,622 words, approx. 25 pages
 Olaf Stapledon was one of the most distinguished writers of science fiction in English in the period between World War I and World War II. He was often proclaimed the successor of H. G. Wells, and he and Wells corresponded for almost a decade.... summary from source:
Biography of (William) Olaf Stapledon
2,118 words, approx. 7 pages
Few writers fit so oddly into their chosen fields as Olaf Stapledon, a science-fiction writer whose knowledge of the genre was so limited that he appears to have written his early "philosophical romances" without any clear idea of the widespread... 
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Olaf Stapledon Information
1,208 words, approx. 4 pages
 He was born in Seacombe, Wallasey, on the Wirral peninsula near Liverpool, the only son of William Clibbert Stapledon and Emmeline Miller. The first six years of his life were spent with his parents at Port Said. He was educated at Abbotsholme School...
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 Utopian Studies An Olaf Stapledon Reader.
03/22/1997: 1,235 words, approx. 4 pages Robert Crossley, ed. Syracuse: Syracuse UP, 1997. xxi + 314 pp. $17.95 Paper. OLAF STAPLEDON (1886--1950) has become modem science fiction's John Milton--an eloquent, deep explorer of great, cosmic themes whom next to no one reads anymore. Nowadays he is more unknown... summary from source:
Utopian Studies Olaf Stapledon: Utopia and worship *.(Critical essay)
12/22/2005: 6,553 words, approx. 22 pages THERE IS A DEEP VEIN OF MELANCHOLY in the utopian. It resonates in Ernst Bloch's phrase "not-yet"--the ever-receding horizon. It's there in that classic utopian paradigm of the Exodus narrative--Moses cheated of seeing the promised land, his people finding the land already occupied,...
Literary Criticism
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 Robert Crossley
9,984 words, approx. 33 pages
In the following essay, Crossley studies the writings and views on science fiction of Olaf Stapledon.
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