Sirius (novel)
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| Author | Olaf Stapledon |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Science fiction, Novel |
| Publisher | Secker & Warburg |
| Released | 1944 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover & Paperback) |
| Pages | 200pp |
| ISBN | NA |
Sirius is a 1944 science fiction novel by the British author Olaf Stapledon.
The premise of the novel is not unusual: scientist Thomas Trelone creates a super-intelligent dog, named Sirius. Yet a sense of existential questioning suffuses the book, as the author delves into every aspect of Sirius's psyche. Both the author and his characters go to great lengths to prevent Sirius from becoming a circus-type wonderdog, and instead seek to develop Sirius's character much like an author and a family would create and foster that of a human child.
The novel describes the dilemmas and problems faced by Sirius, created by the English scientist Trelone and raised in North Wales, near Trawsfynydd. Sirius is born at the same time as Trelone's human daughter Plaxy, and the two of them are raised together as brother and sister. The book is narrated by Plaxy's husband.
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- First Meeting
- The Making of Sirius
- Infancy
- Youth
- Sheep-Dog Apprentice
- Birth Pangs of a Personality
- Wolf Sirius
- Sirius at Cambridge
- Sirius and Religion
- Experiences in London
- Man as Tyrant
- Farmer Sirius
- Effects of War
- Tan-y-Voel
- Strange Triangle
- Plaxy Conscripted
- Outlaw
