Star Maker

William Olaf Stapledon


Preface


Chapter 1 THE EARTH


1.1 The Starting Point

1.2 Earth Among the Stars


Chapter 2 INTERSTELLAR TRAVEL


2.1 Interstellar Travel


Chapter 3 THE OTHER EARTH


3.1 On the Other Earth

3.2 A Busy World

3.3 Prospects of the Race


Chapter 4 I TRAVEL AGAIN


4.1 I Travel Again


Chapter 5 WORLDS INNUMERABLE


5.1 Worlds Innumerable

5.2 Strange Mankinds

5.3 Nautiloids


Chapter 6 INTIMATIONS OF THE STAR MAKER


6.1 Intimations of the Star Maker


Chapter 7 MORE WORLDS


7.1 A Symbolic Race

7.2 Composite Beings

7.3 Plant Men and Others


Chapter 8 CONCERNING THE EXPLORERS


8.1 Concerning the Explorers


Chapter 9 THE COMMUNITY OF WORLDS


9.1 Busy Utopias

9.2 In Mundane Strife

9.3 A Crisis in Galactic History

9.4 Triumph in a Sub-Galaxy

9.5 The Tragedy of the Perverts

9.6 A Galactic Utopia


Chapter 10 A VISION OF THE GALAXY


10.1 A Vision of the Galaxy


Chapter 11 STARS AND VERMIN


11.1 The Many Galaxies

11.2 Disaster in our Galaxy

11.3 Stars

11.4 Galactic Symbiosis


Chapter 12 A STUNTED COSMICAL SPIRIT


12.1 A Stunted Cosmical Spirit


Chapter 13 THE BEGINNING AND THE END


13.1 Back to the Nebulae

13.2 The Supreme Moment Nears

13.3 The Supreme Moment and After


Chapter 14 THE MYTH OF CREATION


14.1 The Myth of Creation


Chapter 15 THE MAKER AND HIS WORKS


15.1 Immature Creating

15.2 Mature Creating

15.3 The Ultimate Cosmos and the Eternal Spirit


Epilogue


Epilogue: Back to Earth



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