Star Maker (Sci-Fi Novel)
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Olaf Stapledon. Star Maker (Sci-Fi Novel)
Star Maker (Sci-Fi Novel)
Table of Contents
PREFACE
I. THE EARTH
1. THE STARTING POINT
2. EARTH AMONG THE STARS
II. INTERSTELLAR TRAVEL
III. THE OTHER EARTH
1. ON THE OTHER EARTH
2. A BUSY WORLD
3. PROSPECTS OF THE RACE
IV. I TRAVEL AGAIN
V. WORLDS INNUMERABLE
1. THE DIVERSITY OF WORLDS
2. STRANGE MANKINDS
3. NAUTILOIDS
VI. INTIMATIONS OF THE STAR MAKER
VII. MORE WORLDS
1. A SYMBIOTIC RACE
2. COMPOSITE BEINGS
3. PLANT MEN AND OTHERS
VIII. CONCERNING THE EXPLORERS
IX. THE COMMUNITY OF WORLDS
1. BUSY UTOPIAS
2. INTERMUNDANE STRIFE
3. A CRISIS IN GALACTIC HISTORY
4. TRIUMPH IN A SUB-GALAXY
5. THE TRAGEDY OF THE PERVERTS
6. A GALACTIC UTOPIA
X. A VISION OF THE GALAXY
XI. STARS AND VERMIN
1. THE MANY GALAXIES
2. DISASTER IN OUR GALAXY
3. STARS
4. GALACTIC SYMBIOSIS
XII. A STUNTED COSMICAL SPIRIT
XIII. THE BEGINNING AND THE END
1. BACK TO THE NEBULAE
2. THE SUPREME MOMENT NEARS
3. THE SUPREME MOMENT AND AFTER
XIV. THE MYTH OF CREATION
XV. THE MAKER AND HIS WORKS
1. IMMATURE CREATING
2. MATURE CREATING
3. THE ULTIMATE COSMOS AND THE ETERNAL SPIRIT
XVI. EPILOGUE: BACK TO EARTH
A NOTE ON MAGNITUDE
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Olaf Stapledon
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During my last years on the Other Earth a system was invented by which a man could retire to bed for life and spend all his time receiving radio programmes. His nourishment and all his bodily functions were attended to by doctors and nurses attached to the Broadcasting Authority. In place of exercise he received periodic massage. Participation in the scheme was at first an expensive luxury, but its inventors hoped to make it at no distant date available to all. It was even expected that in time medical and menial attendants would cease to be necessary. A vast system of automatic food-production, and distribution of liquid pabulum by means of pipes leading to the mouths of the recumbent subjects, would be complemented by an intricate sewage system. Electric massage could be applied at will by pressing a button. Medical supervision would be displaced by an automatic endocrine-compensation system. This would enable the condition of the patient’s blood to regulate itself automatically by tapping from the communal drug-pipes whatever chemicals were needed for correct physiological balance.
Even in the case of broadcasting itself the human element would no longer be needed, for all possible pleasant experiences would have been already recorded from the most exquisite living examples. These would be continuously broadcast in a great number of alternative programmes.
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