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Stapledon became an ambulance driver with the Friends' Ambulance Unit in France and Belgium from July 1915 to January 1919 he was awarded the Croix de Guerre for bravery. ĭuring the First World War he served as a conscientious objector. From 1912 to 1915 Stapledon worked with the Liverpool branch of the Workers' Educational Association. After a brief stint as a teacher at Manchester Grammar School he worked in shipping offices in Liverpool and Port Said from 1910 to 1912. He was educated at Abbotsholme School and Balliol College, Oxford, where he acquired a BA degree in Modern History (Second Class) in 1909, promoted to an MA degree in 1913. The first six years of his life were spent with his parents at Port Said, Egypt. Stapledon was born in Seacombe, Wallasey, on the Wirral Peninsula in Cheshire, the only son of William Clibbett Stapledon and Emmeline Miller. In 2014, he was inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame. William Olaf Stapledon ( – 6 September 1950) – known as Olaf Stapledon – was a British philosopher and author of science fiction. Seacombe, Wallasey, Cheshire, England, UK "Little Gods" by James Pratt "Sects and the Single Girl" by Steven A. And they want in! Features the work of prominent horror authors, many already with published Cthulhu Mythos material. URBAN TEMPLES OF CTHULHU - MODERN MYTHOS ANTHOLOGY Published by the First United Church of Cthulhu In the dark recesses of the world's cities lie the hidden altars and secret cathedrals dedicated to the blasphemous beings from out of space and time. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.īook Description Paperback. The First United Church of Cthulhu is the only real and legally recognized nonprofit religious organization whose faith is based on the Cthulhu Mythos and the visions of our mad prophet H. 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