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Novels
Last and First Men (1930)[Lc1975 n][Lc1987 n]
Magazine Appearances:
The Flying Men (Excerpt from Last and First Men) (1950)
The Flying Men (Excerpt from Last and First Men) (1958)
Humanity on Venus (Excerpt from Last and First Men) (1966)
Last and First Men (Excerpt) (1968)
Last and First Men (Excerpt) (1968)
Last and First Men (chap. XIII) (Excerpt) (1979)
Last Men in London (1932)
Odd John: A Story Between Jest and Earnest (1935)
Star Maker (1937)[Lc1975 n]
Darkness and the Light (1942)
Old Man in New World (1944)
Sirius: A Fantasy of Love and Discord (1944)
Death into Life (1946)
The Flames (1947)
A Man Divided (1950)
The Opening of the Eyes (1954)
"Nebula Maker" (1976) - An early version of _Star Maker_,
published posthumously
Odd John (1988)

Omnibus
Last and First Men and Last Men in London (1972)

Short Fiction
Odd John (1935) - The appearance in Damon Knight's A Century of
Science Fiction is an excerpt.
From The Star Maker (Excerpt) (1937)
A Modern Magician (1979)

Poems
Time (1973)



[Novels and Novellas]
1930 Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future
1932 Last Men in London
1935 Odd John: A Story Between Jest and Earnest
1937 Star Maker
1942 Darkness and the Light
1946 Death into Life
1947 The Flames
1950 A Man Divided
1976 Nebular Maker
[Short Story Collections]
1944 Old Man in New World
1976 Four Encounters
1980 Far Future Calling: Uncollected Science Fiction and Fatasies
[Nonfictions]
1934 Waking World
1939 Philosophy and Living
1954 The Opening of the Eyes