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Star maker
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"Olaf Stapledon wrote star Maker sixty-six years ago as a dramatization of a philosophical idea. Now sixty-six years later, cosmologists are proposing similar scenarios as possible models of the un...
"Olaf Stapledon wrote star Maker sixty-six years ago as a dramatization of a philosophical idea. Now sixty-six years later, cosmologists are proposing similar scenarios as possible models of the universe we live in."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Creator
- Olaf Stapledon ; introduced and edited by Patrick A. McCarthy ; foreword by Freeman Dyson
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- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, [2004]
- ©2004
- Physical Details
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- xxxiii, 314 pages ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780819566928, 0819566926, 9780819566935, 0819566934
- OCLC
- ocm55010795
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-311).
- Foreword / Freeman Dyson -- I. The earth -- II. Interstellar travel -- III. The other earth -- IV. I travel again -- V. Worlds innumerable -- VI. Intimations of the star maker -- VII. More worlds -- VIII. Concerning the explorers -- IX. The community of worlds -- X. A vision of the galaxy -- XI. Stars and vermin -- XII. A stunted cosmical spirit -- XIII. The beginning and the end -- XIV. The myth of creation -- XV. The maker and his works -- XVI. Epilogue : back to earth