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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward

I can vouch for Odd John. It is a masterpiece of the homo superior genre...

Thanks, perhaps I'll give that a try soon.

Originally Posted by queentess

The only Stapledon book I've tried to read is Odd John, and that's because it was listed on the recommended reading list of the Sci-Fi Museum in Seattle. I've been working on it for months now and I'm only about halfway through it. I really doubt I'll bother finishing it because it just got too repetitive.

Can't speak for Sirius though.

Thanks also! Though I have a suspicion that the repetition you mention is a staple (ah-ha-ha!) of Stapledon.

"Last and First Men" and particularly "Star Maker" are not really novels but fictional histories of humanity and the university, respectively. Not hugely character / plot driven in the traditional sense. Perhaps the author's writing naturally tends toward a style that is infrequent (and rarely applauded) in fiction.

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