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Juan no s lo tuvo un nacimiento extraordinario: pronto tomar conciencia de que es esencialmente diferente. Posee unas facultades mentales prodigiosamente superiores a las del resto de las personas que lo convierten en el representante de un estadio m s avanzado de la humanidad... Read Full Overview

Olaf Stapledon influy directamente en Arthur C. Clarke, Brian W. Aldiss, Stanislaw Lem, C. S. Lewis y John Maynard Smith, e indirectamente en muchos otros, contribuyendo con creativas e inteligentes ideas al mundo de la ciencia ficci n, muchas de stas inspiradas por su profundo... Read Full Overview

WHEN I told John that I intended to write his biography, he laughed. "My dear man " he said, "But of course it was inevitable." The word "man" on John's lips was often equivalent to "fool.""Well," I protested, "a cat may look at a king."He replied, "Yes, but can it really see... Read Full Overview

Odd John: A Story Between Jest and Earnest is a 1935 science fiction novel by the British author Olaf Stapledon. The novel explores the theme of the ?bermensch (superman) in the character of John Wainwright, whose super normal human mentality inevitably leads to conflict with... Read Full Overview

Odd John: A Story Between Jest and Earnest is a 1935 science fiction novel by the British author Olaf Stapledon.

We are happy to announce this classic book. Many of the books in our collection have not been published for decades and are therefore not broadly available to the readers. Our goal is to access the very large literary repository of general public books. The main contents of our... Read Full Overview

John Wainwright is a freak - a human mutation with an extraordinary intelligence which is both awesome and frightening to all who come into contact with him. Ordinary humans were just playthings to John - subjects for an endless chain of experiments. Their feelings, and sometimes... Read Full Overview

Odd John: A Story Between Jest and Earnest is a 1935 science fiction novel by the British author Olaf Stapledon. The novel explores the theme of the ?bermensch (superman) in the character of John Wainwright, whose supernormal human mentality inevitably leads to conflict with... Read Full Overview

John Wainwright is a freak - a human mutation with an extraordinary intelligence which is both awesome and frightening to all who come into contact with him. Ordinary humans were just playthings to John - subjects for an endless chain of experiments. Their feelings, and sometimes... Read Full Overview