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Star Maker

Authors:

Olaf Stapledon (author), Brian W. Aldiss (foreword) and Les Edwards (covers)

Language:

English

Original language:

English

Publisher:

Gollancz

Categories:

Novel and science fiction

Publisher series:

SF Masterworks

Publication year:

1999

Original publication year:

1937

ISBN:

978-1-85798-807-9

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Table of Contents:

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Foreword

One: The Earth

1. The Starting Point
2. Earth Among the Stars

Two: Interstellar Travel

Three: The Other Earth

1. On the Other Earth
2. A Busy World
3. Prospects of the Race

Four: I Travel Again

Five: Worlds Innumerable

1. The Diversity of Worlds
2. Strange Mankinds
3. Nautiloids

Six: Intimations of the Star Maker

Seven: More Worlds

1. A Symbiotic Race
2. Composite Beings
3. Plant Men and Others

Eight: Concerning the Explorers

Nine: The Community of Worlds

1. Busy Utopias
2. Intermundane Strife
3. A Crisis in Galactic History
4. Triumph in a Sub-galaxy
5. The Tragedy of the Perverts
6. A Galactic Utopia

Ten: A Vision of the Galaxy

Eleven: Stars and Vermin

1. The Many Galaxies
2. Disaster in our Galaxy
3. Stars
4. Galactic Symbiosis

Twelve: A Stunted Cosmical Spirit

Thirteen: The Beginning and the End

1. Back to the Nebulae
2. The Supreme Moment Nears
3. The Supreme Moment and After

Fourteen: The Myth of Creation

Fifteen: The Maker and His Works

1. Immature Creating
2. Mature Creating
3. The Ultimate Cosmos and the Eternal Spirit

Sixteen: Epilogue: Back to Earth

• A Note on Magnitude
• Time Scales
• Glossary

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