9780486466835: Star Marker

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This bold exploration of the cosmos ventures into intelligent star clusters and mingles among alien races for a memorable vision of infinity. Cited as a key influence by science-fiction masters such as Doris Lessing, this classic has left its mark not only in modern literature but also in the fields of social anthropology and philosophy.
Olaf Stapledon's 1937 successor to Last and First Men offers another entrancing speculative history of the future. Its narrator, a contemporary Earthman, joins a community of explorers who travel to the farthest reaches of the universe, seeking traces of intelligence. Along the way, they encounter nautiloid water beings, races of hyperspiders and hyperfish, composite group intelligences, plantlike creatures, and other strange life forms. Their dramatic voyage unfolds against a backdrop of life-and-death struggles on a cosmic scale.

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Contenuti

Preface 1. The Earth 2. Interstellar Travel 3. The Other Earth 4. I Travel Again 5. Worlds Innumerable 6. Intimations of the Star Maker 7. More Worlds 8. Concerning the Explorers 9. The Community of Worlds 10. A Vision of the Galaxy 11. Stars and Vermin 12. A Stunted Cosmical Spirit 13. The Beginning and the End 14. The Myth or Creation 15. The Maker and His Works 16. Epilogue: Back to Earth A Note on Magnitude Diagrams

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This 1937 successor to Last and First Men offers another entrancing speculative history of the future. Cited as a key influence by science-fiction masters such as Doris Lessing, its bold exploration of the cosmos ventures into intelligent star clusters and mingles among alien races for a memorable vision of infinity.

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