Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon Requirements: .MP3 reader, 200mbOverview: “No book before or since has ever had such an impact upon my imagination,” declared Arthur C. Clarke of Last and First Men. This masterpiece of science fiction by British philosopher and writer Olaf Stapledon (1886–1950) is an imaginative, ambitious history of humanity’s future […]
Odd John by Olaf StapledonRequirements: .MP3 reader, 202mbOverview: Odd John is the story of a mutated superman – a young man who must accept that he is different, and decide what to do with his gifts. John Wainwright is a freak – a human mutation with an extraordinary intelligence which is both awesome and frightening […]
Star Maker by Olaf StapledonRequirements: .MP3 reader, 440mbOverview: Star Maker is a science fiction novel by Olaf Stapledon, published in 1937. The book describes a history of life in the universe, dwarfing in scale Stapledon’s previous book, Last and First Men (1930), a history of the human species over two billion years. Star Maker tackles […]
Last Men in London by Olaf StapledonRequirements: .MP3 reader, 165mbOverview: Though this is a work of fiction, it does not pretend to be a novel. It has no hero but man. Since its purpose is not the characterization of individual human beings, no effort has been made to endow its few persons with distinctive personalities. […]
The Routledge Handbook to the History and Society of the Americas by Olaf Kaltmeier Requirements: .PDF reader, 6 MBOverview: The colonial heritage and its renewed aftermaths – expressed in the inter-American experiences of slavery, indigeneity, dependence, and freedom movements, to mention only a few aspects – form a common ground of experience in the Western […]