- ``Among its more famous admirers were H. G. Wells, Virginia Woolf, C. S. Lewis, Jorge Luis Borges and Doris Lessing. [...] Among SF writers, Arthur C. Clarke has been strongly influenced by Stapledon.``
- World Brain - The Idea of a Permanant World Encyclopaedia
- Descent into Hell
- Faber and Faber
- A supernatural theme is situated in a modern context. Several prominent literary allusions run throughout. The story is spiritual or psychological. Publishers gave up, but T. S. Eliot picked up this novel, as he admired Williams's work, though he did not like this as well as the earlier novels.
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