Talk:Olaf Stapledon

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I've added the information that OS was a strong influence on Brian Aldiss, and slightly modified the contention that CS Lewis's Cosmic Trilogy was written "in response" to his work. Lewis was at least as concerned with repudiating the ideas of HG Wells and GB Shaw. - Phil Purser-Hallard

Stapledon worked with Quakers during the war and admired them. He also had spiritual interests that don't quite fit with his agnostic or deist views. That said he had no interest in religion, he was just more positive on Quakers then most. There is Robert Crossley's biography and other sources to confirm that.--T. Anthony 13:47, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

Lewis praises Stapledon in The Abolition of Man but elsewhere refers to Stapledon's conception of God (in Star Maker) as amounting to Satanism. I'll look for the references. Xanthoxyl 14:03, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

Lewis called it "devilish" or "diabolical", I have him saying so in my notes somewhere, but there's times when this seems to just be an expression he uses to mean "arrogant and bad." I read a collection of Lewis's letters and in the period when he thought religion was wishful-thinking nonsense he still called things he didn't like "devilish." That said the God in Star Maker is somewhat callous and that could seem like a form of dystheism which is sometimes seen as relational to Satanism.--T. Anthony 22:00, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

I think it's high time we had a picture here. - R.Gemmel

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