BTW, no idea if that account is Freeman Dyson or a fan. Grammatical and punctuation errors in a bio don't really seem like what I'd expect from Dyson, but who knows. In any case, I've enjoyed the tweets!
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Just an amazing book, as is Stapledon's "Last and First Men".https://twitter.com/FreemanDys0n/status/777174469651509248 …
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A greater sense of the numinous than almost anything else I've read. I've never finished either - I can't read very far before starting all kinds of projects, it's just too stimulating. I wouldn't call it sci-fi, particularly, though I guess it's shelved there; more genreless.
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Have you read George Dyson's Darwin Amongst the Machines? I reread it recently and had completely forgotten about the long chapter therein about Stapledon's life and WWI experiences and how they influenced the themes of the books.
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Also I highly recommend this lecture by Kim Stanley Robinson on how Virgina Woolf and Stapledon handle time: http://www.kimstanleyrobinson.info/node/477 -- and the correspondence between the two!
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Two of the very few first editions I own.
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I found this very old blog post of yours when I was looking for book recommendations for Christmas earlier http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/books-glorious-books/ … Could be cool to write up another list sometime!
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