Worlds of Wonder (collection)

Worlds of Wonder
Dust-jacket from the first edition
Author	Olaf Stapledon
Cover artist	Jack Gaughan
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Science fiction novels and novellas
Publisher	Fantasy Publishing Company, Inc.
Publication date	1949
Media type	Print (Hardback)
Pages	282 pp
OCLC	1813201

Worlds of Wonder is a collection of three science fiction works by Olaf Stapledon: a short novel, a novella and a short story. It was published in 1949 by Fantasy Publishing Company, Inc. in an edition of 500 copies. All of the stories had originally been published in Britain.

References

Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1998). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd. p. 270.
Contento, William G. "Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections". Retrieved 2008-04-28.
Tuck, Donald H. (1978). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Chicago: Advent. p. 405. ISBN 0-911682-22-8.

Works by Olaf Stapledon

Novels	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)

Short stories	"Old Man in New World" (1944) "Four Encounters" (1976)

Short story collections	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)

Poetry	Latter-Day Psalms (1914)

Non-fiction	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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