One moment a man sits on a suburban hill, gazing curiously at the stars. The nex
t, he is whirling through the firmament, and perhaps the most remarkable of all
science fiction journeys has begun. Even Stapledon's other great work, LAST AND
FIRST MEN, pales in ambition next to STAR MAKER, which presents nothing less tha
n an entire imagined history of life in the universe, encompassing billions of y
ears.
