That book and Last and First Men and possibly Last and First Men in London are amazing. He’s got paragraphs that a normal science fiction writer would flesh out into novels.
Literally in this case: the events of Last and First Men get mentioned in one paragraph of Star Maker as one race that didn’t pan out and wind up becoming part of wider happenings after only lasting 2 billion years.
That book and Last and First Men and possibly Last and First Men in London are amazing. He’s got paragraphs that a normal science fiction writer would flesh out into novels.
Literally in this case: the events of Last and First Men get mentioned in one paragraph of Star Maker as one race that didn’t pan out and wind up becoming part of wider happenings after only lasting 2 billion years.