{"product_id":"2026200015583-secondhand-star-maker","title":"Star Maker","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the mind of one of science fiction's most visionary thinkers comes Star Maker, a breathtaking cosmic odyssey that begins with a solitary man sitting on a hillside in England and ends with the contemplation of the very mind of God. Olaf Stapledon's 1937 masterpiece chronicles a nameless narrator whose consciousness is hurled across the universe, spanning billions of years and encountering civilisations of unimaginable diversity — from symbiotic races and hive minds to alien worlds shaped by entirely different laws of physics and morality. The journey is not merely one of space and time, but of escalating philosophical revelation, as the narrator and his growing band of cosmic companions press ever closer to the ultimate creative intelligence: the Star Maker itself.\n\nStapledon's prose is less that of a traditional novelist and more that of a philosophical visionary, presenting ideas of staggering scale with a cool, luminous clarity that has influenced generations of writers — from Arthur C. Clarke and Brian Aldiss to Stanisław Lem. Star Maker argues, with quiet but insistent power, that humanity is but a fleeting footnote in the vast, indifferent yet magnificent story of the cosmos, challenging the reader's every assumption about consciousness, civilisation, and creation. It is a book that permanently alters one's sense of scale — will you dare to look up at the stars the same way again?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203221561563,"sku":"2026200015583-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/51d6d56c-ef6d-4b2a-b4e0-1ebfa93bc6ab.png?v=1788146029","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200015583-secondhand-star-maker","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}