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Language English Pages 181 Publisher Methuen Publishing | 3.7/5 Goodreads Publication date 1942 Originally published 1942 Page count 181 Country United Kingdom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Media type Print (Hardcover & Paperback) Genres Novel, Science Fiction, Speculative fiction Similar Death into Life, Old Man in New World, Last Men in London, Nebula Maker, The Flames: A Fantasy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Darkness and the light by william olaf stapledon book reading british english female voice
Darkness and the Light (1942) is a science fiction novel by Olaf Stapledon.
In this work written in 1941, during World War II, Stapledon projects two separate futures for humanity, depending not on the outcome of that particular conflict but on the failure or success of a future "Tibetan Renaissance" to influence the temper and ideology of the militaristic Russian and Chinese empires that threaten it. One of the futures involves worldwide Chinese imperialism and the subsequent degeneration and extinction of the human race, unable to defend itself against speedily evolving rats. The other ends in overthrowing the empires and creation of a worldwide socialist utopia.
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