Darkness and the Light

Darkness and the Light
First edition
Author	Olaf Stapledon
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Genre	Science fiction novel
Publisher	Methuen
Publication date	1942
Media type	Print (Hardcover & Paperback)
Pages	181

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.

Works by Olaf Stapledon

Novels	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)

Short stories	"Old Man in New World" (1944) "Four Encounters" (1976)

Short story collections	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)

Poetry	Latter-Day Psalms (1914)

Non-fiction	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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