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FAR FUTURE CALLING: UNCOLLECTED SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASIES OF OLAF STAPLEDON. Edited with an authorized biography by Sam Moskowitz .. by Stapledon, William Olaf - 1979

by Stapledon, William Olaf

FAR FUTURE CALLING: UNCOLLECTED SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASIES OF OLAF STAPLEDON. Edited with an authorized biography by Sam Moskowitz .. by Stapledon, William Olaf - 1979

FAR FUTURE CALLING: UNCOLLECTED SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASIES OF OLAF STAPLEDON. Edited with an authorized biography by Sam Moskowitz ..

by Stapledon, William Olaf

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Philadelphia: Oswald Train: Publisher, 1979. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects five short stories, "Far Future Calling," a radio play about Stapledon's Last Men, and "Interplanetary Man," Stapledon's 1948 address to the British Interplanetary Society, with a 55-page biography and memoir of Stapledon's visit to the U.S. in 1949 by Moskowitz. This is the first book publication of "Interplanetary Man," pp. 209-252, his address to the British Interplanetary Society first published in JOURNAL OF THE BRITISH INTERPLANETARY SOCIETY 7 (November 1948). "Philosophy of man's role in and motivation for space flight, by a well-known British science fiction writer. This is one of the earliest articles on this topic and a milestone in the history of the British Interplanetary Society" (Pisano and Lewis). Pisano and Lewis 1215. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#9327)
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  • Publisher Oswald Train: Publisher
  • Place of Publication Philadelphia
  • Date Published 1979
  • Keywords Rocketry; (Reference) (Rocketry) (Short Stories)
Odd John and Sirius
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Odd John and Sirius

by William Olaf Stapledon; Olaf Stapledon

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Odd John: A Story Between Jest and Earnest : New special edition

by Stapledon, William Olaf

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Weird Tales Winter 1973
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Weird Tales Winter 1973: 50th Anniversary Issue

by Sam Moskowitz (editor), Albert P. Mitchell, Robert E. Howard, William Hope Hodgson, Katherine McLean andMary Kornbluth, August Derleth and Mark Schorer, H. P. Lovecraft, A. Merritt, Miriam A. deFord, Olaf Stapledon,Clark Ashton Smith and Lin Carter, Cleve

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Title: Weird Tales Winter 1973 Vol. 47 No. 3
Contributors: Sam Moskowitz (editor), Albert P. Mitchell, Robert E. Howard, William Hope Hodgson, Katherine McLean andMary Kornbluth, August Derleth and Mark Schorer, H. P. Lovecraft, A. Merritt, Miriam A. deFord, Olaf Stapledon,Clark Ashton Smith and Lin Carter, Cleveland Moffett, Robert W. Chambers, Emma Frances Dawson, Virgil Finlay
Publisher: Weird Tales
Date: 1973
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Last and First Men Illustrated

by William Olaf Stapledon

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Star Maker
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Star Maker

by William Olaf Stapledon

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Last and First Men / Star Maker

Last and First Men / Star Maker

by Stapledon, William Olaf

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Last and First Men
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Last and First Men

by William Olaf Stapledon

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Star Maker
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Star Maker

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The Flames
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The Flames

by William Olaf Stapledon

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ODD JOHN: A STORY BETWEEN JEST AND EARNEST

ODD JOHN: A STORY BETWEEN JEST AND EARNEST

by Stapledon, William Olaf

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New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., [1936]. First U. S. edition. Tanning to end papers, foxing to page edges, several tiny tears to cloth at the head of spine, corner tips a bit soft, a very good copy in a poor dust jacket with the front panel separated, loss to lower third of spine with wear and loss to head of spine, front flap missing. (28098). Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v [vi] 1-282, original light brown cloth, front and spine stamped in black. One of a number of later bindings. Stapledon's third novel. "... the most radically thoughtful of the many fictional extrapolations of ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES and one of the least comfortable in its conclusion. Above all it exposes the flimsiness of thinking that 'Superman' will always be on the side of the police, that evolution has stopped, or that from now on evolution will only take place nicely." - Survey of Science Fiction Literature IV, pp. 1583-87. "Although the narrative voices Stapledon's biases, it remains perhaps the finest early novel in which… Read More
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