Star Maker

Overview:

  • Title: Star Maker
  • Author: Olaf Stapledon
  • Year: Unknown
  • ISBN-10: 9781857988079
  • Publisher: Gollancz / Orion
  • Price: £8.99
  • Pages: xiv+272
  • Binding: Trade Paperback
  • Type: Novel
  • Title Reference: Star Maker
  • Notes:
    Stated 20th printing of the 1999 edition, by number line. Title page:
    • Top of the page, "SF Masterworks" underlined, with a circle, as for the first Masterworks series.
    • "Star Maker [over] Olaf Stapledon"
    • Gollancz colophon.
    Copyright page:
    • "Copyright © Olaf Stapledon 1937"
    • "First published in Great Britain in 1999 by [over] Millennium [over] An imprint of Victor Gollancz Books [over] Orion House, 5 Upper St Martin's Lane, London WC2H 9EA"
    • Number line: "20"
    • "An imprint of the Orion Publishing Group"
    • "ISBN 13: 978 1 85798 807 9"
    • "Printed and bound in Great Britain [over] by Clays Ltd, Elcograf S.p.A."
    Back cover:
    • "UK £8.99" (no additional pricing)
    • "Based on illustration by Les Edwards"
    • "ISBN 978-1-857-98807-9". No EAN.
    Spine:
    • "SF Masterworks", "Star Maker" in black; "Olaf Stapledon" in purple, all on graduated yellow-to-white ground.
    Contents on pages v to vii. Dates of Aldiss's Foreword and Stapledon's Glossary are taken from the 1987 Tarcher/St. Martin's Press 50th Anniversary edition. Foreword is signed "Brian W. Aldiss" on page xiv. At the bottom of page xiv: "Publisher's Note: The Star Maker Glossary included in this 50th Anniversary Edition was intended for the original edition of the book" Novel starts on page 1 and finishes on page 254. The text accompanying Time Scales (Time Scale 1, Time Scale 2, Time Scale 3) is written in the first person - the author. Stapledon's Glossary is uncredited, however Satty's introduction explicitly cites Stapledon as the author of the text. Semi-gloss cover.