Olaf Stapledon: Philosopher and Fabulist

question Stapledon confronts in Starmaker. That remainsnthe crucial question for "modern" man. Some writers, HkenApollo's existentialists described in W.H. Auden's "UndernWhich Lyre?" "declare that they are in complete despair,nyet keep on writing"; others pretend that they can happilyninhabit a world as cold and valueless as "science . . .