Star Maker (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Olaf Stapledon
- First Published: 1937
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—cosmic voyage
- Time of Work: 1937, then into the fourth dimension
- Setting: From England to the end and beginning of the universe
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: Space flight or travel, 1930’s, God, England or English people, Nazism or Nazis, Universe
- Locales: Space, England
The Plot
The hero of Star Maker is an Englishman, known only as “I.” Comfortably married, he lacks passionate commitment. He is apprehensive of the rise of the Nazis in Germany, but the world situation pales against the cosmic panorama that soon engulfs him. From a hill near his suburban home, he is transported on a night journey into the sky. This expands to become an odyssey through time and space, to the alpha and omega points of the universe itself. First, he glimpses Earth from space, opalescent against a spangled ebony backdrop.
I discovers that through...
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