Far Future Calling [Hardcover]

Olaf Stapledon (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 276 pages
• Publisher: Donald M Grant (December 1986)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1880418061
• ISBN-13: 978-1880418062
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.8 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,697,734 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Essays, stories, and a bio, November 23, 1999

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Stefan Jones (Suburbs of Portland, OR) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Far Future Calling (Hardcover)

The late Sam Moskowitz, a noted SF historian, does a great service in bringing together these short pieces by the british SF author / philosopher.

None of these pieces are utter knock-outs with the impact of one of Stapledon's novels. Some, such as a radio play in which members of the last human species (see _Last and First Men_) lecture Londoners, are a bit creaky. All are worth reading, though.

Moskowitz's biographical introduction is good, but Robert Crossley's book length bio, and the biographical material in _An Olaf Stapledon Reader_, is better.