Old Man in New World
1944 short story by Olaf Stapledon
"Old Man in New World" is a short story by British writer 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 in the late 1990s, 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 the seeds of the very things he, in his youth, fought against — falsehood, political will and religiosity.
External links
- Old Man in New World title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
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Works by Olaf Stapledon
- 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)
- "Old Man in New World" (1944)
- "Four Encounters" (1976)
- Worlds of Wonder: Three Tales of Fantasy (1949)
- To the End of Time: the Best of Olaf Stapledon (1953)
- Far Future Calling: Uncollected Science Fiction and Fantasies of Olaf Stapledon (1979)
- An Olaf Stapledon Reader (1997)
- Latter-Day Psalms (1914)
- A Modern Theory of Ethics (1929)
- Waking World (1934)
- Saints and Revolutionaries (1939)
- New Hope for Britain (1939)
- Philosophy and Living (1939)
- Beyond the "Isms" (1942)
- Seven Pillars of Peace (1944)
- Youth and Tomorrow (1946)
- The Opening of the Eyes (1954)
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