Olaf Stapledon

Star Maker

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This 1937 successor to "Last and First Men" offers another entrancing speculative history of the future, exploring intelligent star clusters and mingling among aliens for a memorable vision of infinity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Dover Publications
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 141mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 209g
• ISBN-13: 9780486466835
• ISBN-10: 0486466833
• Artikelnr.: 23363322

Autorenporträt

A preeminent figure of British science fiction, Olaf Stapledon (1886-1950) wrote several influential novels. Praised by H. G. Wells, Aldous Huxley, and Virginia Woolf, Stapledon's works introduced such innovative concepts as genetic engineering and terraforming.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface 1. The Earth 2. Interstellar Travel 3. The Other Earth 4. I Travel
Again 5. Worlds Innumerable 6. Intimations of the Star Maker 7. More Worlds
8. Concerning the Explorers 9. The Community of Worlds 10. A Vision of the
Galaxy 11. Stars and Vermin 12. A Stunted Cosmical Spirit 13. The Beginning
and the End 14. The Myth or Creation 15. The Maker and His Works 16.
Epilogue: Back to Earth A Note on Magnitude Diagrams