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