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       Olaf Stapledon

      Star Maker

      Sci-Fi Novel

      e-artnow, 2021

       Contact: [email protected]

      EAN 4064066387174

       PREFACE

       I THE EARTH

       1. THE STARTING POINT

       2. EARTH AMONG THE STARS

       II INTERSTELLAR TRAVEL

       III THE OTHER EARTH

       1. ON THE OTHER EARTH

       2. A BUSY WORLD

       3. PROSPECTS OF THE RACE

       IV I TRAVEL AGAIN

       V WORLDS INNUMERABLE

       1. THE DIVERSITY OF WORLDS

       2. STRANGE MANKINDS

       3. NAUTILOIDS

       VI INTIMATIONS OF THE STAR MAKER

       VII MORE WORLDS

       1. A SYMBIOTIC RACE

       2. COMPOSITE BEINGS

       3. PLANT MEN AND OTHERS

       VIII CONCERNING THE EXPLORERS

       IX 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

       X A VISION OF THE GALAXY

       XI STARS AND VERMIN

       1. THE MANY GALAXIES

       2. DISASTER IN OUR GALAXY

       3. STARS

       4. GALACTIC SYMBIOSIS

       XII A STUNTED COSMICAL SPIRIT

       XIII THE BEGINNING AND THE END

       1. BACK TO THE NEBULAE

       2. THE SUPREME MOMENT NEARS

       3. THE SUPREME MOMENT AND AFTER

       XIV THE MYTH OF CREATION

       XV THE MAKER AND HIS WORKS

       1. IMMATURE CREATING

       2. MATURE CREATING

       3. THE ULTIMATE COSMOS AND THE ETERNAL SPIRIT

       XVI EPILOGUE: BACK TO EARTH

       A NOTE ON MAGNITUDE

      PREFACE

       Table of Contents

      At a moment when Europe is in danger of a catastrophe worse than that of 1914 a book like this may be condemned as a distraction from the desperately urgent defence of civilization against modern barbarism.

      Year by year, month by month, the plight of our fragmentary and precarious civilization becomes more serious. Fascism abroad grows more bold and ruthless in its foreign ventures, more tyrannical toward its own citizens, more barbarian in its contempt for the life of the mind. Even in our own country we have reason to fear a tendency toward militarization and the curtailment of civil liberty. Moreover, while the decades pass, no resolute step is taken to alleviate the injustice of our social order. Our outworn economic system dooms millions to frustration.

      In these conditions it is difficult for writers to pursue their calling at once with courage and with balanced judgement. Some merely shrug their shoulders and withdraw from the central struggle of our age. These, with their minds closed against the world’s most vital issues, inevitably produce works which not only have no depth of significance for their contemporaries but also are subtly insincere. For these writers must consciously or unconsciously contrive to persuade

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