Olaf Stapledon · 1937 · Novel
Setting: cosmic scale (billions of years)
After reading "Last and First Men", I approached Olaf's next masterpiece, "Star Maker" ( first published in 1937), with some disbelief as to how on earth he could possibly better the span, pathos and magnanimity he had already laid out. A quick scan of the appendices yielded the impression that this book would embrace not just the tiny fragment of history that was mankind's stay in the universe, but that all history of the universe would be described, and that of other universes too. All of this in less pages than "Last and First Men"! My immediate reaction was simply, "No way, Jose" and I wondered how he was going to set about such an immense task.
Source: OpenLibrary
Tags: Fiction, generalFiction in EnglishScience fictionFictionCosmologyLong Now Manual for CivilizationFiction, science fiction, generalEnglish literatureEnglish Science fiction
isfdb_id: 1142
openlibrary_id: OL3290739W
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