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Star Maker

Star Maker

General Fiction

William Olaf Stapleton

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"Star Maker" was published in 1937. It is a work with extremely strange form and content. The book describes the history of life in the universe, and its time scale far exceeds the two billion years of human history in its predecessor, "The First and the Last Man." "Star Maker" explores many philosophical propositions such as the nature of life, birth, decline and death, and explores the relationship between the Creator and creation. Throughout the book, there is a process of gradual unification within and between different civilizations. Some of the elements and themes briefly discussed in it predicted genetic engineering and alien life forms often mentioned in later science fiction novels.