Talk:Star Maker

message: As well as adding more information I've substantially re-written the original article: I thought that it was a bit vague, and was praising the book rather than describing it.  I've tried to keep in all the original information, but I've taken out this sentence:
"Stapledon, a committed pacifist, wrote this book shortly before the start of World War II."
I'm not sure this is relavent as I don't think it's really an anti-war book, except for the theme of progressive unity which I have mentioned.
--SpaceFrog 21:57, 29 Jul 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Major re-write 

message: I was sorely tempted to alter the paragraph or two on Stapledon's influences, which clearly imply that marxism (and even Darwinism!) is/are passé -- this being a neo-liberal conceit of the present period, masquerading as fact -- making that passage completely gratuituous and partisan. But I decided instead to post my objection here, for now, as these contentions can and will get easily out of hand.
I was deeply impressed by Last an First men over 40 years ago, but have only read a few things by Stapledon since then. I am no expert on him. But I am an expert on marxism, and I do contend this (rather small, passing) slight. And fact is, it lessens the objectivity of the piece, however much the passage is 'qualified'. This implication shouldn't even have come up at all -- i.e. it is there solely for the purpose of placing doubt in the readers' minds, for purely partisan political reasons. And so that passage should be re-written.
And that wouldn't be so hard to do, AFAIC.
Pazouzou 23:07, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stapledon's Socialism 

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Starmakersfmasterworks.JPG

message: I don't know if it is relevant enough to include in the article, or if a blog is a source that is reliable enough, but here it is if some more info is required:
From Narnia to a Space Odyssey: The War of Letters Between Arthur C. Clarke and C.S. Lewis:   
Dear Mr. Clarke--
 
I quite agree that most scientifiction [science fiction] is on the level of cowboy boys' stories. But I think the fundamental moral assumptions in popular fiction are a very important symptom. If you found that the most popular stories were those in which the cowboy always betrayed his pals to the crooks and deserted his girl for the vamp, I don't think it would be unimportant.
 
I don't of course think that at the moment many scientists are budding Westons: but I do think (hang it all, I live among scientists!) that a point of view not unlike Weston's is on the way. Look at Stapledon (Star Gazer ends in sheer devil worship), Haldane's Possible Worlds and Waddington's Science and Ethics. I agree Technology is per se neutral: but a race devoted to the increase of its own power by technology with complete indifference to ethics does seem to me a cancer in the universe. Certainly if he goes on his present course much further man can not be trusted with knowledge.
~C.S. Lewis, Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis: Volume II, Letter to Arthur C. Clarke of Dec 7, 1943
The Window in the Garden Wall--A C.S. Lewis Blog: August 2005 84.210.60.115 (talk) 11:08, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: About C.S. Lewis' opinion about the book

message: I've removed the table of contents section, as this is the only article on a book that I've found that has one and honestly, it's not notable.Wzrd1 (talk) 20:17, 3 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Table of contents? 

message: I'm not in the mood to extract info from here; maybe you are. DS (talk) 21:37, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sources 

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message: Hi, according to the article on Olaf Stapleton, this book contains the first known mention of a Dyson sphere. What is the best place to add the information on this page?
Olaf Stapledonhttps://web.archive.org/web/20140109033551/http://meaningoflife.tv/transcript.php?speaker=dyson GridInstability (talk) 20:31, 7 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dyson sphere