A novel without a single character--that is, unless you count civilizations, peoples if you prefer, as characters. Improbably, it carried me along, although there were a few too many cycles of birth-death-rebirth of humanity. You can see how it's the great-great ancestor of the far-future scifi g...
"Sirius" is a thoroughly enjoyable novel in its own right - a delight to read just for its plot. But "Sirius" is also meant to encourage philosophical thought, which it does in a delicate, subtle, and very approachable way. As with all good books of this sort, "Sirius" raises many more questions ...
Stapledon cuenta toda la historia del universo desde su creacion hasta su fin. Los filosofos de la historia han investigado el pasado del hombre para encontrar respuesta al enigma de la vida.
Here is, reissued, one of those SF tales that was of a type so common around the 1940’s and 50’s: except that this one set the mould in 1935. Though short, it challenges the reader, and leaves you much to think about afterwards.Odd John is a tale of a ‘superman’: John Wainwright, an Englishman wh...
Juan no sólo tuvo un nacimiento extraordinario: pronto tomará 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 más avanzado de la humanidad. Convencido de que...
"But I don't know any," said Thomas. "They're not my line. And anyhow I wouldn't trust them not to blab." Sirius was not to be put off; and finally it was agreed that Elizabeth should help him to satisfy his curiosity about religion, and at the same time show him London. She had a cousin who was ...