Imagine having an actual Stapledon in the room. He was married to Agnes Zena Miller and together they had two children - their daughter Mary Sydney Stapledon and a son, John David Stapledon, whose nephew Jason Shenai attended the BIS symposium, much to the delight of all those present.
He had worked as a teacher at the Manchester Grammar School and served with the Friends’ Ambulance Unit in France and Belgium during World War I. His thesis was “A Modern Theory of Ethics”, later the subject of a book.
He obtained a BA Modern History, 1909, from Balliol College, Oxford and a PhD Philosophy University of Liverpool, 1925.
He spent much of his childhood growing up in Egypt. William Olaf Stapledon was born in Seacombe, Wallasey, on the Wirral Peninsula near Liverpool, England, on the 10th of May 1886. The session was organized for the purpose of facilitating wider exposure to his ideas and as a way to invite those who may never have heard of him to discover a gem in the literature of space exploration and science fiction. On the 23rd of November members and visitors gathered to discuss the philosophy and literature of Stapledon in the context of today’s current space exploration activities. Once again, the BIS has organized another first in history. There was no one who thought bigger and over longer timescales than the philosopher and writer Olaf Stapledon. However, the most recent BIS symposium is on a topic that covers eons. Osborne, Symposium Chairmenĭuring the summer the British Interplanetary Society (BIS) played host to a symposium on World Ships, possibly the first such dedicated conference ever on these grand, long-term planning concepts. Here is their report from the event, a conference evidently as rife with speculation and far-future musings as anything the author himself ever penned.īy K.F.
Kelvin Long and Richard Osborne have seen to it that the British Interplanetary Society’s conference on the highly influential science fiction writer and philosopher Olaf Stapledon has gone off without a hitch.
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