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02680aam a22003731i 4500 001 485068401BE411EA82BF083097128E48 003 SILO 005 20191211010111 008 721102t19361936nyu 000 f eng 010 $a 36015690 035 $a (OCoLC)484837 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c HIR $d DLC $d OCLCQ $d OCLCG $d OCLCQ $d SWW $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d NUI $d UtOrBLW $d SILO 082 14 $a Fic $b Sta 100 1 $a Stapledon, Olaf, $d 1886-1950, $e author. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50023275 245 10 $a Odd John : $b a story between jest and earnest / $c by Olaf Stapledon. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b E.P. Dutton & Co., $c [1936] 300 $a v, 282 pages ; $c 20 cm 520 $a The present story follows the life and deeds of a Super Human. He is the product of an evolutionary jump and graced with super human intelligence. This intelligence needs time to evolve and grow, so John maintain infant characteristic by a longer period than normal. He is in permanent conflict with his surroundings, mastering them is a hard task. In order to receive help he recruits/enthralls a family's friend, who is the narrator in this novel. John grows up and discovers he is not alone; there are other specimens of Homo Superior around the world. He sets out to search and recruit them for a unique project: establishing a Colony of his kind. Stapledon use the different anecdotes to illustrate his cogitations about human kind, religion, politic, justice, ethic and more, many more transcendental subjects. --Maximiliano F. Yofre at Amazon.com. 541 $3 Hevelin copy 1 $c Purchase; $a Rusty Hevelin; $d 201204. $5 IaU 563 $3 Hevelin copy 1 $a Publisher's illustrated dust jacket. $5 IaU 650 0 $a Genius $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Science fiction. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85118629 650 7 $a Genius. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00940195 650 7 $a Science fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01108566 655 7 $a Fiction. $2 fast $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1423787 $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1423787 655 7 $a Science fiction. $2 lcgft $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2014026529 655 7 $a Novels. $2 lcgft $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2015026020 655 7 $a Fiction. $2 lcgft $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2014026339 700 1 $a Hevelin, Rusty, $e former owner. $5 IaU $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2015056446 776 08 $i Online version: $a Stapledon, Olaf, 1886-1950. $t Odd John. $b [1st ed.]. $d New York, E.P. Dutton & Co. [1936] $w (OCoLC)609550201 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231018014255.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=485068401BE411EA82BF083097128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search