gwern comments on Open Thread, May 1-14, 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gwern 03 May 2013 03:49:22PM 5 points [-]

Yes! Star Maker is one of the very few books that I'd place up there with Blindsight and a few others in depicting truly alien aliens; and he doesn't do it once but repeatedly throughout the book. It's really impressive how Stapledon just casually scatters around handfuls of jewels that lesser authors might belabor singly throughout an entire book.