Star Maker

Foreword xi Freeman Dyson Acknowledgments xvii Introduction xix Star Maker Preface 3(4) The Earth 7(9) The Starting Point 7(4) Earth Among the Stars 11(5) Interstellar Travel 16(11) The Other Earth 27(33) On the Other Earth 27(5) A Busy World 32(15) Prospects of the Race 47(13) I Travel Again 60(10) Worlds Innumerable 70(24) The Diversity of Worlds 70(7) Strange Mankinds 77(10) Nautiloids 87(7) Intimations of the Star Maker 94(6) More Worlds 100(31) A Symbiotic Race 100(11) Composite Beings 111(9) Plant Men and Others 120(11) Concerning the Explorers 131(6) The Community of Worlds 137(40) Busy Utopias 137(9) Intermundane Strife 146(12) A Crisis in Galactic History 158(3) Triumph in a Sub-Galaxy 161(7) The Tragedy of the Perverts 168(4) A Galactic Utopia 172(5) A Vision of the Galaxy 177(10) Stars and Vermin 187(23) The Many Galaxies 187(2) Disaster in Our Galaxy 189(5) Stars 194(10) Galactic Symbiosis 204(6) A Stunted Cosmical Spirit 210(3) The Beginning and the End 213(19) Back to the Nebulae 213(5) The Supreme Moment Nears 218(5) The Supreme Moment and After 223(9) The Myth of Creation 232(4) The Maker and His Works 236(22) Immature Creating 236(10) Mature Creating 246(7) The Ultimate Cosmos and the Eternal Spirit 253(5) Epilogue: Back to Earth 258(7) A Note on Magnitude 265(2) Time Scales 267(4) Glossary 271(10) Notes 281(26) Bibliography 307