Identify Containing Books Last and First Men/Star Maker
| Title | : | Last and First Men/Star Maker |
| Author | : | Olaf Stapledon |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 438 pages |
| Published | : | June 1st 1968 by Dover Publications (first published 1937) |
| Categories | : | Science Fiction. Fiction. Science Fiction Fantasy |
Olaf Stapledon
Paperback | Pages: 438 pages Rating: 4.03 | 538 Users | 39 Reviews
Narration Supposing Books Last and First Men/Star Maker
The greatest future histories in science fiction. In Last and First Men the protagonist is "mankind" in an ultimate definition — intelligence. Star Maker, in a sense its sequel, is concerned with the history of intelligence in the entire cosmos.Details Books In Favor Of Last and First Men/Star Maker
| Original Title: | Last and First Men/Star Maker |
| ISBN: | 0486219623 (ISBN13: 9780486219622) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://olafstapledonarchive.webs.com/ |
Rating Containing Books Last and First Men/Star Maker
Ratings: 4.03 From 538 Users | 39 ReviewsArticle Containing Books Last and First Men/Star Maker
Read Star Maker yet again. I used it as source material for a Creating Realistic Animal Characters workshop at Anthrocon 2010. Written in the 1930's-1940's and still mind-blazingly brilliant. I have lost count of all the times I have pored over this book. Stapledon's novel Sirius: A Tale of Love and Discord, was a direct inspiration for my Ratha prehistoric cat series.Completely separate from the pulp sf tradition, yet a tremendous influence upon it, the five novels of the philosopher Olaf Stapledon were a fictional popularisation of his ideas about the unimportance of the individual except through fulfilment in community life. Two of them First and Last Men and Star Maker adopt vast historical perspectives to show the entire history of our humanity and its greatly altered descendants and of the whole history of intelligent life in the galaxy; their sense of
Haven't been able to finish it. Maybe I will some day, but ten minutes of this book is better than any sleeping pill. It's crammed with interesting ideas and settings, but without characters and real-time scenes it's pretty hard to get more than mildly interested. Reading this book is like reading the Wikipedia synopses of eight hundred movies in a row. Or like reading a history textbook, which I suppose was the intention. My attention span is just a little too 21st century for this. If that
Very dry and hard to read, but rewarding in that I feel enriched by my exposure to the imaginings of this total nerd from the 30s. Glad I read it.
Having read The Last and First Men and finding that Star Maker was basically more of the same, I ended up stopping half-way through. The scope of these novels is large, no doubt, but that doesn't make them all that enjoyable to read. When the science is about as soft as soft gets and the narrative gives you next to no reason to give a shit, the reading just becomes a chore. Further, the ending of TLAFM was nothing but new-age one-mind universal consciousness bullshit. As an analogy, it could be
Interesting with an older more formal and florid writing style that took me a while to get used to and philosophical beliefs ideas that are in some ways rather disturbing or uncomfortable and in other ways amusingly archaic for a 21st century reader. Can't say I liked it on an emotional level but I can see why it is referred to as a classic.
Read Star Maker yet again. I used it as source material for a Creating Realistic Animal Characters workshop at Anthrocon 2010. Written in the 1930's-1940's and still mind-blazingly brilliant. I have lost count of all the times I have pored over this book. Stapledon's novel Sirius: A Tale of Love and Discord, was a direct inspiration for my Ratha prehistoric cat series.
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