Darkness and the Light
| Title | Darkness and the Light |
| Year for Search | 1942 |
| Authors | Stapledon, [William] Olaf(1886-1950) |
| Tertiary Authors | Stapledon, Olaf |
| Date Published | 1942 |
| Publisher | Methuen |
| Place Published | London |
| Keywords | English author, Male author |
| Annotation | Eutopia and dystopia presented as two alternative future histories. The dystopia is extrapolated from the situation as it existed in 1942. In the eutopia that situation is overcome and for a time a eutopia based on villages develops. Following that, the human race goes through periods of decline and advance until a new and higher human type develops. |
| Additional Publishers | Rpt. Westport, CT: Hyperion Press, 1974. Excerpts rpt. in An Olaf Stapledon Reader. Ed. Robert Crossley (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1997), 28-42. |
| Holding Institutions | L, PSt |
| Author Note | (1886-1950) |
| Full Text | 1942 Stapledon, [William] Olaf (1886-1950). Darkness and the Light. London: Methuen. Rpt. Westport, CT: Hyperion Press, 1974. Excerpts rpt. in An Olaf Stapledon Reader. Ed. Robert Crossley (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1997), 28-42. L, PSt Eutopia and dystopia presented as two alternative future histories. The dystopia is extrapolated from the situation as it existed in 1942. In the eutopia that situation is overcome and for a time a eutopia based on villages develops. Following that, the human race goes through periods of decline and advance until a new and higher human type develops. |
