Darkness and the Light
(Sunday Classic)
Fiction & Literature, Classics, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Science Fiction, Nonfiction, History
| Author: | Olaf Stapledon, William Olaf Stapledon | ISBN: | 1230000033127 |
| Publisher: | Sunday_Classic | Publication: | November 25, 2012 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | Olaf Stapledon, William Olaf Stapledon |
| ISBN: | 1230000033127 |
| Publisher: | Sunday_Classic |
| Publication: | November 25, 2012 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
Darkness and the Light
Olaf Stapledon.
Genre(s)Science fiction, Novel
Darkness and the Light (1942) is a science fiction novel by Olaf Stapledon.
In this work written in 1941, at the most frightening point of World War II, Stapledon projects two separate futures for humanity, depending not on the outcome of that particular conflict but on the failure or success of a future "Tibetan Renaissance" to influence the temper and ideology of the militaristic Russian and Chinese empires that threaten it. One of the futures involves worldwide Chinese imperialism and subsquent degeneration and extinction of the human race, unable to defend itself against speedily evolving rats. The other ends in overthrowing the empires and creation of a worldwide socialist utopia.
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Darkness and the Light
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Darkness and the Light
Olaf Stapledon.
Genre(s)Science fiction, Novel
Darkness and the Light (1942) is a science fiction novel by Olaf Stapledon.
In this work written in 1941, at the most frightening point of World War II, Stapledon projects two separate futures for humanity, depending not on the outcome of that particular conflict but on the failure or success of a future "Tibetan Renaissance" to influence the temper and ideology of the militaristic Russian and Chinese empires that threaten it. One of the futures involves worldwide Chinese imperialism and subsquent degeneration and extinction of the human race, unable to defend itself against speedily evolving rats. The other ends in overthrowing the empires and creation of a worldwide socialist utopia.
Olaf Stapledon Books (Sunday Classic)
Darkness and the Light
Last and First Men
Last Men in London
Odd John A Story between Jest and Earnest
Sirius A Fantasy of Love and Discord
Star Maker
The Flames
