Odd John
Book Details
| Title: | Odd John | ||||||||||
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| Published: | 1936 | ||||||||||
| Publisher: | Berkley Publishing Corporation | ||||||||||
| Tags: | fiction, science fiction | ||||||||||
| Description: | The novel explores the theme of the Übermensch (superman) in the character of John Wainwright, whose supernormal human mentality inevitably leads to conflict with normal human society and to the destruction of the utopian colony founded by John and other superhumans.—Wikipedia. [Suggest a different description.] |
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| Downloads: | 1,196 | ||||||||||
| Pages: | 172  |
Author Bio for Stapledon, Olaf
William Olaf Stapledon (10 May 1886—6 September 1950)—known as Olaf Stapledon—was a British philosopher and author of science fiction. In 2014, he was inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame.
Stapledon was awarded a PhD degree in philosophy from the University of Liverpool in 1925 and used his doctoral thesis as the basis for his first published prose book, A Modern Theory of Ethics (1929). However, he soon turned to fiction in the hope of presenting his ideas to a wider public. The relative success of Last and First Men (1930) prompted him to become a full-time writer. He wrote a sequel, Last Men in London, and followed it up with many more books of both fiction and philosophy.
Stapledon’s fiction often presents the strivings of some intelligence that is beaten down by an indifferent universe and its inhabitants who, through no...
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