Your complimentary articles You’ve read one of your four complimentary articles for this month. You can read four articles free per month. To have complete access to the thousands of philosophy articles on this site, please Classics Brian Johns goes cosmic. The 1937 science fiction novel Star Maker was written by philosophy professor Olaf Stapledon in the dark days as Europe awaited the onslaught of Nazi Germany. This casts a shadow over the whole book. Arthur C. Clarke called the novel “probably the most powerful work of imagination ever written” and it can be found today in the Science Fiction Masterworks series, but to me it stands as a metaphysics fiction masterwork. Cosmic in its scope, Star Maker sets out the cause, evolution, history and meaning of life, including beyond our universe, including discussing the roles of God and religion.…