Olaf Stapledon

Last and First Men (1930)

A novel without a single character--that is, unless you count civilizations, peoples if you prefer, as characters. Improbably, it carried me along, although there were a few too many cycles of birth-death-rebirth of humanity. You can see how it's the great-great ancestor of the far-future scifi g...

Sirius: A Fantasy of Love and Discord (1979)

"Sirius" is a thoroughly enjoyable novel in its own right - a delight to read just for its plot. But "Sirius" is also meant to encourage philosophical thought, which it does in a delicate, subtle, and very approachable way. As with all good books of this sort, "Sirius" raises many more questions ...

Hacedor de Estrellas (2003)

Odd John (1975)

Here is, reissued, one of those SF tales that was of a type so common around the 1940’s and 50’s: except that this one set the mould in 1935. Though short, it challenges the reader, and leaves you much to think about afterwards.Odd John is a tale of a ‘superman’: John Wainwright, an Englishman wh...

Juan Raro (2003)