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News of Note
Star Maker
Written by Dustin
Monday, 16 November 2009
By Olaf Stapledon (Wesleyan, $26.95)
New rule: you haven't read science fiction until you've read Stapledon. His prose is a little dated feeling, but his imagination, his passion for inventing strange worlds and strange peoples page after page, is unrivaled even now. Stapledon nearly exhausted the genre before it got started, and he deserves to be read long after it fades away.
New rule: you haven't read science fiction until you've read Stapledon. His prose is a little dated feeling, but his imagination, his passion for inventing strange worlds and strange peoples page after page, is unrivaled even now. Stapledon nearly exhausted the genre before it got started, and he deserves to be read long after it fades away.