Ever Read Any William Olaf Stapledon?… If You Like Sci Fi… You Should…

I go back and re-read Last and First Men and Star Maker every couple of years for over 30 years now… This Man Was Amazingly Accurate In His Visions Of The Future…

From Wikipedia

Stapledon’s work directly influenced Arthur C. Clarke, Brian Aldiss, Stanislaw Lem, C. S. Lewis and John Maynard Smith and indirectly influenced countless others, contributing so many ideas to the world of science-fiction (most of them inspired by his readings in philosophy) that they are too numerous to list. Although his work predated the appearance of the word “transhuman” in 1966, both the transhuman condition and the supermind (composed of many individual consciousnesses) form recurring themes in his work. Star Maker also contained the first known description of Dyson spheres. Freeman Dyson credits this novel with giving him the idea. Last and First Men also featured early descriptions of genetic engineering and terraforming. Sirius describes a dog whose intelligence is increased to the level of a human being’s.

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