 Join me and my co-hosts every Saturday at 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. Pacific for cartoons and movies at the 50th Street Studio Twitch Channel. See you there Greetings everybody. Welcome. This is 30 second sci-fi. My name is Keith I'm going to talk to you this week about Star maker by Olaf Stapledon and it's a predecessor novel The Last and First Men. I Over the years of making 30 second sci-fi I Get comparatively little feedback very few comments and even fewer requests for books to review But of the books that I have received requests to review Star maker comes in second number one is Dune For many years I had a copy of Star maker sitting on my bedside table intending to read it I finally got around to listening to a couple of audiobooks and I have to tell you these two books are a couple of the biggest disappointments in my Science-fiction reading career, which is many decades long now First I do have to say that Stapledon Earns his reputation as one of the unknown fathers of science fiction. His imagination was amazing. He wrote these books in the 1930s and He went Whole hog. These books are actually very dry Histories of the entire future of the universe all the way to the end of the universe in both cases Where he describes the the nature of the human race how it changes how it evolves how it encounters other races the the living godlike creatures that control the universe and His imagination Wow, so fertile. He clearly understood evolution and he clearly understood modern cosmology I mean clearly the problem is and This happened to me with both books I got very near to the end just one or two chapters away from the end and then gave up on them in both cases It was because the books turned Christian There was Jesus all over these books and I finally I Finally gave up on them in disgust because that that doesn't make good science fiction Christian mythology Written by someone who believes it Makes for very bad fiction and very bad science and I just had to give up on them And that's all there is to it Thank you for watching. I hope you come back next week Please become a sponsor to help me make more videos Follow the link on screen and in the description below where you can make a monthly pledge or a one-time donation And we will see you next time. Bye