Star maker

by Stapledon, Olaf

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Title Statements

Full title :Star maker / Olaf Stapledon.

Summary

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.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:1999, ©1937.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Millennium
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:1999, ©1937.

Notes

Reprinted with a foreword by Brian W. Aldiss and the glossary from the 50th anniversary edition, excluded from the original printing. - Originally published: London : Methuen, 1937.

The Physical Object

Description:xiv, 272 pages ; : 20 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:1857988078, 9781857988079
oclc:ocm42444772
LC Classification:PR6037.T18
Dewey Decimal:823.912

Subjects

Cosmologie -- Romans, nouvelles, etc cosmology Cosmology -- Fiction Fiction Life on other planets Life on other planets -- Fiction Science fiction Vie extraterrestre -- Romans, nouvelles…