THE STAR MAKER
by Stapledon, Olaf
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- first
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- Light tanned strips to free end papers, a clean nearly fine to fine copy. No dust jacket. (30789)
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About This Item
London: Metheun & Co. Ltd., [1937]. First edition, first impression. Light tanned strips to free end papers, a clean nearly fine to fine copy. No dust jacket. (30789). Ocatvo, pp. [i-iv] v-ix [x] xi-xii 1-339 [340: printer's imprint], original blue cloth, spine panel stamped in red. 2513 copies of this issue were distributed. The author's fourth novel, often regarded as Stapledon's greatest work, and one of the very few truly seminal modern SF novels. "...mind-boggling imaginative tour de force..."- Survey of Science Fiction Literature V, pp. 2150-55. "...a tremendously exciting exposition of Stapledon's philosophy, which extends his thought to its logical conclusion."- Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 3-60. "A magnificent work by any standards; the most important speculative work of the period."- Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 2-121. "Last and First Men is just slightly an atheist's tract, based largely on nineteenth-century thought, and in particular on Winwood Reade's Martyrdom of Man. In Star Maker, the atheism has become a faith in itself, so that it inevitably approaches higher religion, which is bodied forth on a genuinely new twentieth-century perception of cosmology. It therefore marks a great step forward in Stapledon's art, the thought unfolding with little sense of strain through chapter after chapter. It is magnificent. It is almost unbearable... Last and First Men and Star Maker soar far beyond the accepted limits of science fiction... Stapledon is the great classical example, the cold pitch of perfection as he turns scientific concepts into vast ontological epic prose poems, the ultimate SF writer."- Aldiss and Wingrove, Trillion Year Spree: The History of Science Fiction, p. 198. Stapledon's "influence, both direct and indirect, on the development of many concepts which now permeate genre SF is probably second only to that of H. G. Wells."- Clute and Nicholls (eds), The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1993), pp. 1151-53. Anatomy of Wonder (1981) 2-101 and (1987) 2-112. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1514. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 722. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 72. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, pp. 205. Stableford, Scientific Romance in Britain 1890-1950, pp. 209-12. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 185. Reginald 13562. Satty and Smith A7.1.1.1.
Synopsis
Star Maker is an influential science fiction novel by Olaf Stapledon, written in 1937.
Reviews
On Dec 6 2021, a reader said:
How does a man describe the surfaces of moons, and interstellar travel as if he had actually done it? The sheer intellect of Mr. Stapledon is daunting, his writing style effusive, and compelling. If you love science fiction, you cannot overlook Olaf Stapledon. A man whom influenced some of our Golden Age Giants. Starmaker is a psychedelic, Transcendant voyage of discovery through the cosmos that will whisk you away as if you were born to it.
The way that Shakespeare understood the human condition as if connected to several older minds, Mr. Stapledon describes things he could not possibly know, let alone imagine, and leads me to believe that he was similarly attuned to reality, and truth. Get the book, and read it as soon as possible!
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- Bookseller
- John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 30789
- Title
- THE STAR MAKER
- Author
- Stapledon, Olaf
- Book Condition
- Used - Light tanned strips to free end papers, a clean nearly fine to fine copy. No dust jacket. (30789)
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition, first impression
- Publisher
- Metheun & Co. Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- [1937]
- Keywords
- SF
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