Star Maker, (Paperback)

from RobertDay

Aiee! My brain's exploding! (With enormous concepts, that is...)

from TimCTaylor

If you ever come my way you'll know you're near my house because my WiFi network is called 'Olaf Stapledon'. Star Maker is the main reason for that. It is a page-turner of breathtaking imagination. Be warned, though, this book has no room for plot or characters except for the most flimsy of frami...

from baswood

Science fiction should have plenty of the wonder factor and I found Star Maker to be almost mind expanding. Stapledon is describing the birth and death of the whole cosmos, no less and is doing it from a first person perspective. I read the first half of this book late at night and later had the ...

from Rynooo

Mind-boggling in scope and rife with ideas, many chapters in this book read like synopses for other, more recent novels. For that I can appreciate the praise it has garnered. However, it was a slog to get through, reading like some kind of protracted thesis and got tiresome very quickly. Two thir...

from M.Campanella

This is the book your university creative writing teacher warned you against. And that is not a good thing. Ideas are rich, but the writing is burdensome. I plowed through it just to see why CS Lewis thought the ending was so heretical. I don't think I got that either.