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Star Maker

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Star Maker
39.99 €
Olaf Stapledon (1886–1950) was a professor of psychology, philosophy and industrial history at the University of Liverpool, a writer whose work left an indelible impression on the most popular masters of science fiction of the twentieth century. Stanislav Lem, Arthur Clarke and Brian Aldiss repeatedly spoke of Stapledon's novels with great warmth, considering him in many ways their teacher. In 1930, Stapledon wrote his debut novel, The Last and First Men: A History of the Near and Far Future, which truly presented the largest history of the future in science fiction, covering the two-billion-year evolution of intelligence on Earth and in the solar system. The history of the origin and development of mankind, the diversity of forms of living and intelligent matter, countless wars and catastrophes that form ever new types of development, the exit of people of the future to Mars, Venus, Neptune and beyond - beyond the boundaries of the studied universe... A premonition of something important, great, absolute, an eternal search and an eternal struggle with inertia - this book was so charged with ideas that subsequent generations of science fiction writers received an inexhaustible source of inspiration...
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