Series
Star Maker
Olaf Stapledon · 1 novel · 2 novellas · 5 short stories · 1 collection · 1937–1997
Star Maker (1937) is Olaf Stapledon's cosmic philosophical novel, tracing the rise and fall of civilizations across the universe as it builds toward questions about creation, unity, and the nature of the Star Maker behind it all, expanding the scope of his earlier Last and First Men. It is paired here with Nebula Maker, a related manuscript Stapledon wrote in the 1930s between those two novels but which went unpublished until its rediscovery in 1976, alongside a handful of shorter pieces. Together they sit within Stapledon's last-men-universe of linked visionary future histories.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
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The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
Map
Star Maker at the centre, 1 subseries around it, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1930s3
- 1940s0
- 1950s0
- 1960s0
- 1970s3
- 1980s2
Shape
1 novel · 2 novellas · 5 short stories · 1 collection
1 author · completed series
reads like:science fictionspace explorationgalactic scalefar futurereflectiveadult
Mood
Grim and calm: 80% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 5%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book5 of 8 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- "Nebula Maker"darkest · most intense
- 4 Encountersbrightest · calmest