"While I was gazing thoughtfully at my native planet, I continued to ascend into space. Far away, I saw the Earth shrinking, and as I rushed eastward, it seemed to rotate beneath me. All its features moved westward until the sunset and the central Atlantic appeared. Then night fell. Within a few minutes, the planet became a huge half-moon. Very quickly, it became a hazy, continuously shrinking crescent, next to the clearer and even smaller crescent of its satellite"...
Olaf Stapledon, in this work, embarks on a magnificent interstellar journey. The traveler, a human who starts from a hill on planet Earth, evolves into an intangible entity that roams with incredible speed through space and time, encounters improbable worlds and different bizarre beings, experiences unexpected events, and reaches the depths of creation in a desperate attempt to find the truth of everything, to explain the creation of the world. "Star Maker" is Stapledon's masterpiece. It touches the limits of the classic masterpiece, distinguished by imagination and satire. The author gives a different - magical - dimension to the birth and end of the universe.