Odd John: A Story Between Jest and Earnest by Olaf Stapledon

Odd John: A Story Between Jest and Earnest

Olaf Stapledon

198 pages first pub 1935 (editions)

fiction classics science fiction adventurous challenging reflective slow-paced
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The novel explores the theme of the bermensch (superman) in the character of John Wainwright, whose supernormal human mentality inevitably leads to conflict with normal human society and to the destruction of the utopian colony founded by John an...

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