Re: Nefertiti's lovely elongated head



See for yourself. Here is a lttle bit more... written in 1937 Star Maker.

"Stapledon imagines alien biologies, minds and civilizations radically
different from human ones. But unlike Stanislaw Lem's Solaris, all these are
supposed to be fundamentally similar in the long run, since all are governed
by
the same Darwinian and Marxist laws of development. These views, rooted in the
late 19th and early 20th century, may appear dated to some modern readers. The
eclectic mix of popular science, socialism and religious mysticism is
Stapledon's own.

Some of Stapledon's ideas for alien minds, such as collective intelligence,
seem far ahead of their time, anticipating recent ideas about swarm
intelligence and the general fascination with networks. He also mentions the
idea of virtual reality in the first alien world visited, in the form of an
apparatus that directly affects sense centers in the brain. The idea of entire
worlds as spacecraft is used several times."


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Maker



And thanks to the amazing world of the Internet, you can even read the bool
on-line.
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0601841.txt

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