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portada Star Maker: A Visionary Journey Through Alien Civilizations, Cosmic Consciousness, and Speculative Cosmology
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Language
English
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
22.9 x 15.2 x 0.8 cm
ISBN13
9788028356958

Star Maker: A Visionary Journey Through Alien Civilizations, Cosmic Consciousness, and Speculative Cosmology

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Synopsis "Star Maker: A Visionary Journey Through Alien Civilizations, Cosmic Consciousness, and Speculative Cosmology"

Olaf Stapledon's Star Maker (1937) is a cosmic philosophical romance that expands the ambitions of science fiction to a near-metaphysical scale. Beginning with an unnamed narrator's estrangement from Earth, the book journeys through alien civilizations, galactic societies, and the ultimate vision of a creator-artist, the Star Maker. Its style is austere, visionary, and essayistic, less concerned with conventional plot than with speculative anthropology, spiritual inquiry, and the fate of consciousness. Within the context of interwar modernism and early scientific romance, it stands as a landmark of imaginative cosmology. Stapledon, a British philosopher, educator, and veteran of the First World War, brought to fiction a rare combination of ethical seriousness and scientific curiosity. His pacifism, interest in social progress, and training in philosophy shaped his concern with collective destiny rather than individual adventure. Star Maker develops themes already present in Last and First Men, but widens them into a meditation on creation, suffering, and cosmic responsibility. This book is recommended to readers who value speculative fiction as an instrument of intellectual enlargement. It will especially reward those interested in philosophy, theology, cosmology, and the history of science fiction's highest ambitions.

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