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"Old Man in New World" is a short story by Olaf Stapledon, published as a separate volume by George Allen and Unwin in 1944. It was published through PEN, the international writers' association.
The story is set some time in the 1960s, and tells of the world that has been rebuilt from the devastation of the Second World War, as seen through the eyes of an old revolutionary. The "Old Man" is invited to London to see "The Procession of The Peoples", an event celebrating the new order and the triumph of the human spirit.
In witnessing this event, however, the Old Man sees nothing but the seeds of the very things he, in his youth, fought against — falsehood, political will and religiosity.
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 (ed. Basil Davenport, 1953) · Far Future Calling: Uncollected Science Fiction and Fantasies of Olaf Stapledon (ed. Sam Moskowitz 1979) · An Olaf Stapledon Reader (ed. Robert Crossley, 1997)
Poetry Latter-Day Psalms (1914)
Non-fiction A Modern Theory of Ethics: A study of the Relations of Ethics and Psychology (1929) · Waking World (1934) · Saints and Revolutionaries (1939) · New Hope for Britain (1939) · Philosophy and Living, 2 volumes (1939) · Beyond the "Isms" (1942) · Seven Pillars of Peace (1944) · Youth and Tomorrow (1946) · The Opening of the Eyes (ed. Agnes Z. Stapledon, 1954)
Categories:- 1944 short stories
- Science fiction short stories
- Short stories by Olaf Stapledon
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