![]() ![]() Aliens Never Invented the Wheel: Many aquatic civilizations stagnate in industry due to the difficulty in creating fires underwater.There are even some that are made of sound, some have time but lack space. Alien Geometries: Not all of the Star Maker's creations are Euclidean.An Aesop: It is important to love your neighbor, and to balance action with contemplation.After examining several individual alien societies in some detail, the book's perspective gradually pulls back from a planetary to a galactic scale, then to a universal scale, and finally to a viewpoint that encompasses the Star Maker himself and all of his various created universes.Īlso like its predecessor, it's told through the framing device of a man (Stapledon himself, presumably) being given this "guided tour" of reality telepathically by advanced beings from the future. ![]() ![]() Like Last and First Men, the story's viewpoint grows broader and broader as it progresses, though this time it is a broadness not only of time but of space. When he decided that the former book - which chronicled the entire (future) history of humankind - had not been nearly ambitious enough, Stapledon followed it up with a history of the entire universe, culminating in a brief glimpse into the nature and history of God himself (the titular Star Maker). ![]() Star Maker is a 1937 Science Fiction novel by Olaf Stapledon, and a sequel of sorts to Last and First Men. ![]()
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