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''Nebula Maker'' is a science fiction novel by Olaf Stapledon, published posthumously by Bran's Head Books in 1976. Probably written around 1932-33 (when Stapledon was working on ''Odd John'', his tale of a superhuman youth), the book is essentially a first draft of the author's 1937 opus ''Star Maker'', though there are many marked differences to the later, more polished work. One of the most notable differences is the treatment of the nebulae themselves, as a cosmic civilisation, peopled with recognisable characters. Two of them – Bright Heart and Fire Bolt – are treated very much as if they are human beings. ==History== Stapledon first announced his intention to write a history of the universe in his 1935 work ''Odd John'', in which the main character, John Wainwright, has already produced such a thing (Stapledon would often mention his next literary project in the book he was currently working on – the story of ''Odd John'' is itself mentioned in passing in 1932's ''Last Men in London''). However, Stapledon had by this time already completed the draft we now know as ''Nebula Maker'', which he passed on to his friend, the novelist Naomi Mitchison, in the summer of 1933. Mitchison offered her own criticisms of the manuscript; she found the God-figure too traditionally male, and was amused by Stapledon's myth-making, which jarred with his self-image as a man of practicality and pragmatism. Mitchison's criticism impressed Stapledon sufficiently to send him back to the drawing-board, and the manuscript was duly shelved, to be found forty years later in Stapledon's desk. Stapledon then began work on what would become ''Star Maker''. ''Nebula Maker'' was published as a work in its own right in 1976, by Bran's Head Books. It contained a foreword by Harvey Satty, then president of the Olaf Stapledon Society. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nebula Maker」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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