Star Maker

Olaf Stapledon

Millennium, 1999 - Cosmology - 272 pages

Begins with the narrator fleeing a domestic argument and walking to the top of a hill to gaze at the stars. He finds himself "astrally projecting" and soon discovers another world, populated by roughly humanoid creatures. After telepathically joining with a sympathetic native, he explores the world and its troubled civilizations. After disaster and folly doom the planet, the narrator and his guide find themselves whisked to another troubled world, and another, and so on, each populated by stranger and stranger creatures with more and more esoteric mental and spiritual natures. After several millenia, a true galactic civilization arises and begins organizing itself into a Galactic Mind to root out the deepest questions of existence.

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User Review  - Cheryl_in_CC_NV - LibraryThing

Just couldn't get into this. It was written as the shadow of WWII was growing over Europe, with related worries esp. re' fascism, and it just wasn't working as speculative fiction for me.

LibraryThing Review

User Review  - Cheryl_in_CC_NV - LibraryThing

Just couldn't get into this. It was written as the shadow of WWII was growing over Europe, with related worries esp. re' fascism, and it just wasn't working as speculative fiction for me.

About the author

SALES POINTS* #21 in the Millennium SF Masterworks series, a library of the finest science fiction ever written* 'A prodigious novel' -- Jorge Luis Borges* 'Probably the most powerful work of imagination ever written' -- Arthur C. Clarke* His influence is probably second only to that of H.G. Wells -- The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

Bibliographic information

• Title: Star Maker; Millennium SF Masterworks S; Issue 21 of SF masterworks
• Author: Olaf Stapledon
• Edition: reprint, revised
• Publisher: Millennium, 1999
• ISBN: 1857988078, 9781857988079
• Length: 272 pages