Stapledon

"Lou, authors like Olaf Stapledon, who was a historian, knew that history has its ups and downs." "Steve, you know a return to Dark Ages is not impossible."

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Olaf Stapledon wrote sci-fi about humanity being still essentially an ape, as evolution would unfold as a two-billion-year rollercoaster ride. It was written in 1930, before major pollution and thermonuclear weapons. Will humankind really have time to still evolve?

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Historians, as Olaf Stapledon, acknowledge the ups and downs of history, and he, as other sci-fi writers, expounds on that very theme.

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Olaf Stapledon takes his reader of the book Star Maker on a long astral journey through the universe with visits in strange farflung worlds.

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