Olaf Stapledon: Speaking for the Future

by Robert Crossley

William Olaf Stapledon is best remembered for the extraordinary works of speculative fiction he published between 1930 and 1950. As a novelist, he was known as the spokesman for the Age of Einstein and has influenced writers as diverse as Virginia Woolf, Arthur C. Clarke, and Doris Lessing.

This biography is the first to draw on a vast body of unpublished and private documents--interviews, correspondence, archival material, and papers in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815602812
• ISBN13: 9780815602811
• Release Date: July 1994
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 494 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.3"