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Review: Star MakerUser Review - Mark Peters - GoodreadsCan't believe I've been reading sci-fi (on and off it must be said) for over twenty years and never read this genre defining work by Stapledon. On the blurb KSRobinson says that plots that could be ... Read full review Review: Star MakerUser Review - Adrian Sherlock - GoodreadsOne of the most brilliant things I've ever read, Olaf Stapledon leaves the rest of the science fiction genre in the shade, he was really something else. Pure speculative imagination, with doses of ... Read full review Related books
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Common terms and phrasesa√airs a√ected a√ord adventure aeons alien appeared arachnoids artificial attained awakened worlds became biological Bvalltu Chapter civilization cloud communal mind conceived consciousness cosmical mind cosmos course creations creative creatures crisis Crossley culture Dante’s darkness destroyed developed di√erent di≈cult disaster discovered diversity Divine Comedy e√ect e√ort Earth Echinoderm eternal experience exploration fact flavour Freeman Dyson galactic society galaxy host human ichthyoids imagination immense increased individual infinite intelligence interstellar interstellar travel kind later Lee Smolin less light living lucidity man’s Martin Rees mental merely minded worlds narrator native nature Nautiloid nebulae neighbours novel ocean Odd John Olaf Stapledon once orbit organs passion perhaps phase physical planetary systems planets population race remote seemed sense social Society of Worlds sometimes space species spirit stage Star Maker star’s stellar strange su√ering sub-galaxy swarm symbiosis symbiotic telepathic terrestrial tion tribes universe utopia vision worship Bibliographic information |