Олаф Стэплдон цитаты

Но даже фамилия Стэплдона не внесена в многочисленные английские энциклопедии по истории современной литературы. На протяжении тридцати лет произошло нечто такое, что створки ворот гетто <фантастики> захлопнулись и наступило то состояние особого размежевания, о котором прозорливый Уэллс никогда не мог даже подозревать.
Станислав Лем, «Фантастика и футурология», книга 1 (V. Социология научной фантастики), 1970, 1972
перевод: С. Макарцев, В. Борисов, 2004

Stapledon's visionary account of the end of a universe and the birth of future universes is one of the high points in all human thought.
Брэд Стрейджер, Джон Уайт, «Другие миры, другие вселенные», 1986
Источник: Brad Steiger & John White, Other Worlds, Other Universes (1986), p.227.

Вл. Гаков, «Энциклопедия фантастики. Кто есть кто», 1995
Источник: Стэплдон (Stapledon), (Уильям) Олаф // Энциклопедия фантастики. Кто есть кто / Под ред. Вл. Гакова. — Минск: Галаксиас, 1995.

Вл. Гаков, «Летописец вечности»

Источник: Star Maker (1937), Chapter V: Worlds Innumerable; 2. Strange Mankinds (p. 61)

Introduction
Philosophy and Living (1939)
Контексте: My childhood, which lasted some twenty-five years, was moulded chiefly by the Suez Canal, Abbotsholme, and Balliol. Since those days I have attempted several careers, in each case escaping before the otherwise inevitable disaster. First, as a schoolmaster, I swotted up Bible stories on the eve of the scripture lesson. Then, in a Liverpool shipping office, I spoiled bills of lading, and in Port Said I innocently let skippers have more coal than they needed. Next I determined to create an Educated Democracy. Workington miners, Barrow riveters, Crewe railway-men, gave me a better education than I could give them. Since then two experiences have dominated me: philosophy, and the tragic disorder of our whole terrestrial hive. After a belated attack on academic philosophy, I wrote a couple of books on philosophical subjects and several works of fantastic fiction dealing with the career of mankind. One of them, Last and First Men, is in this series.

Philosophy and Living (1939)
Контексте: Throughout man's career intelligence and charity have been man's distinctive and most valuable assets. One of our early pre-human ancestors is said to have been much like the Spectral Tarsier, a little mammal about the size of a mouse, with long wiry fingers and huge forward-looking eyes adapted for binocular vision. Not by weapons but by correlation of subtle eyes and subtle hands through subtle brain, this creature triumphed. And man himself conquered the world by the same means, by attention, by discrimination, by skilled manipulation, by versatility; in fact by intelligence and imagination in adapting himself to an ever-changing environment.

Источник: The Seed and the Flower

Источник: Odd John

Sirius (1944)

Other texts
Источник: The Core, in: An Olaf Stapledon Reader, Syracuse University Press, New York 1997: pp. 266-272.

Источник: Sirius (1944), Chapter XII Farmer Sirius (an answer to Plaxy's rant about democracy).

Источник: Star Maker (1937), Chapter XIII: The Beginning and the End; 3. The Supreme Moment and After (p. 163)

Источник: Star Maker (1937), Chapter X: A Vision of the Galaxy (p. 133)

Источник: Star Maker (1937), Chapter XIII: The Beginning and the End; 3. The Supreme Moment and After (p. 162)

Источник: Last and First Men (1930), Chapter VII: The Rise of the Second Men; Section 3, “The Zenith of the Second Men” (p. 112)

Part I Crisis, 2. The Modern Age
Darkness and the light (1941/42)

Источник: Star Maker (1937), Chapter I: The Earth; 2. Earth Among the Stars (p. 14)

Источник: Last and First Men (1930), Chapter II: Europe’s Downfall; Section 1, “Europe and America” (pp. 34-35)

Last Men in London (1932)

fragments of poems supposedly writen by Paul
Last Men in London (1932)

Источник: Last and First Men (1930), Chapter XIII: Humanity on Venus; Section 1, “Taking Root Again” (p. 195)

Источник: Star Maker (1937), Chapter V: Worlds Innumerable; 3. Nautiloids (p. 69)

Источник: Star Maker (1937), Chapter XIII: The Beginning and the End; 3. The Supreme Moment and After (p. 161)

Источник: Last and First Men (1930), Chapter XV: The Last Men; Section 3, “A Racial Awakening” (pp. 228-229)

Источник: Last and First Men (1930), Chapter III: America and China; Section 1, “The Rivals” (p. 43)

Источник: Philosophy and Living (1939), Chapter VIII: Personality

Источник: Star Maker (1937), Chapter II: Interstellar Travel (pp. 17-18)

Part V The Reign of Darkness, 3. Diabolic World Empire.
Darkness and the light (1941/42)

Источник: Star Maker (1937), Chapter XV: The Maker and His Works; 2. Mature Creating (p. 179)

Other texts
Источник: Waking World, Chapter 11: Religion http://olafstapledonarchive.webs.com/wakingworld_ch11.html

Источник: Last and First Men (1930), Chapter XIV: Neptune; Section 1, “Bird’s-Eye View” (p. 206)

Источник: Star Maker (1937), Chapter III: The Other Earth; 1. On the Other Earth (p. 26)