Death into Life
1946 novel by Olaf Stapledon
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| Author | Olaf Stapledon |
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| Publisher | Methuen |
Publication date | 1946 |
| Pages | 159 |
| OCLC | 3471284 |
Death into Life is a 1946 novel by British writer Olaf Stapledon.[1] Not strictly science fiction (the genre into which Stapledon's works are usually classified), the novel is described as "an imaginative treatment of the problem of survival after death". It deals primarily with the soul of a rear gunner who is killed in World War II, and who finds himself surviving his apparent death - first as part of a spirit bomber-crew, then as part of the spirits who were killed in the battle, and so on until finally his soul becomes part of a 'cosmical spirit'.
The book was the second to last work of Stapledon's fiction to be published during the author's lifetime.
Editions
- Olaf Stapledon, Morte nella vita, traduzione di Alessio Severo, Passerino Editore, 2024, ASIN B0D5TQ9JJ9; FdBooks, 2024, ASIN B0D7SSBL1R (edizioni ebook); FdBooks, 2024, ASIN B0D7SSBL1R (edizione cartacea)
References
- ^ Stapledon, Olaf. In The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (4th edn) (12 September 2022)
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Works by Olaf Stapledon
- Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future (1930)
- Last Men in London (1932)
- Odd John: A Story Between Jest and Earnest (1935)
- Star Maker (1937)
- Darkness and the Light (1942)
- Sirius: A Fantasy of Love and Discord (1944)
- Death into Life (1946)
- The Flames: A Fantasy (1947)
- A Man Divided (1950)
- Nebula Maker (drafts of Star Maker, 1976)
- "Old Man in New World" (1944)
- "Four Encounters" (1976)
- Worlds of Wonder: Three Tales of Fantasy (1949)
- To the End of Time: the Best of Olaf Stapledon (1953)
- Far Future Calling: Uncollected Science Fiction and Fantasies of Olaf Stapledon (1979)
- An Olaf Stapledon Reader (1997)
- Latter-Day Psalms (1914)
- A Modern Theory of Ethics (1929)
- Waking World (1934)
- Saints and Revolutionaries (1939)
- New Hope for Britain (1939)
- Philosophy and Living (1939)
- Beyond the "Isms" (1942)
- Seven Pillars of Peace (1944)
- Youth and Tomorrow (1946)
- The Opening of the Eyes (1954)
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