“This is a work of fiction. I have tried to invent a story which may seem a possible, or at least not wholly impossible, account of the future of man; and I have tried to make that story relevant to the change that is taking place today in man’s outlook.”
Preface to his novel Star Maker, by Olaf Stapleton, July 1930.
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This is an idea of ideas, a network of natural origins; a shape crawling up the primordial shore, out of one world into another, sort of like Stapleton’s was.
You can start here, from a window in time, or there, and read the story from a character’s perspective. Or you can access chapters or sections by clicking the tabs above.
(To-do: list twelve things the so-called novel is about.)
- waking
- walking
- waiting
- waltzing
- waxing
- waning
- wanting
- watching
- working
- wearing
- willing
- winning
… A + B = C
Get the characters in 12 steps to go where they need to go.
How fragile is the silence!
thermodynamics of ideas 