Yes, I've always felt the same way. I even have a plan for the ultimate Stapleton homage novel, which I hope to write some day.
My inelegant attempt to capture Stapledon's "Last and First Men" and "Star Maker" in a Tweet.https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/1077389803711168512 …
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I hope you do! Despite many, many flaws in some ways those books are the best science fiction ever written. I wish more people would pick up Stapledon's baton and run with it. (The modern-ish thing which feels closest, to me, might well be Carl Sagan's non-fiction "Cosmos".)
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Fun fact: Virginia Woolf was a major fan of Stapledon’s work. If she could finish Star Maker you can too :-)(especially since the last part is the best)https://io9.gizmodo.com/5362291/the-science-fiction-writer-who-received-fan-mail-from-virginia-woolf …
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The issue with finishing it isn't that the book isn't good enough. It's that it's too good - it makes me so excited about the Universe I have to go and do things! Probably just need to tie myself to a chair, or lock myself in a room.
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Came across a coincidentally fortuitous find at the bookstore today
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I hit Stapleton early in my SF reading career, and was enthralled. Later, I found him too… airy and unmoored. Now that I’ve reached an airy and unmoored stage of life, I should pick him up again, right?
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Star Maker I absolutely loved it. Last and First Men I found it hardest (to read and to believe). But yes, they are both great.
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