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Authors: Olaf Stapledon
ISBN-13: 9780486466835, ISBN-10: 0486466833
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Dover Publications
Date Published: May 2008
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Olaf Stapledon

OLAF STAPLEDON (1886-1950) served as Lecturer in Psychology and Philosophy at Liverpool University. PATRICK A. MCCARTHY is Professor of English at the University of Miami, author of Olaf Stapledon (1982) and editor of The Legacy of Olaf Stapledon (1989). FREEMAN J. DYSON is Professor of Physics, Emeritus, at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton, NJ. He conceived the Dyson Sphere, has designed nuclear reactors and writes on the relationship of science to literature and theology.

Book Synopsis

First scholarly edition of this 20th century science fiction masterpiece.

Publishers Weekly

The Wesleyan Early Classics of Science Fiction presents the first scholarly edition of Olaf Stapledon's 1937 masterpiece, Star Maker, edited by Patrick A. McCarthy. Physicist Freeman Dyson provides a foreword. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Preface3
IThe earth7
IIInterstellar travel16
IIIThe other earth27
IVI travel again60
VWorlds innumerable70
VIIntimations of the star maker94
VIIMore worlds100
VIIIConcerning the explorers131
IXThe community of worlds137
XA vision of the galaxy177
XIStars and vermin187
XIIA stunted cosmical spirit210
XIIIThe beginning and the end213
XIVThe myth of creation232
XVThe maker and his works236
XVIEpilogue : back to earth258
A note on magnitude265
Time scales267
Glossary271
Notes281
Bibliography307

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