Sirius (Annotated)

Sirius (1944) is a searching fable of scientific ambition and metaphysical loneliness, centred on a sheepdog endowed with human-level intelligence by the biologist Thomas Trelone and raised alongside Trelone's daughter, Plaxy. Stapledon combines pastoral realism, tragic romance, and philosophical science fiction to examine consciousness, species hierarchy, religion, sexuality, and the limits of sy...