The Star Mill
Author: Emil Petaja
Published: Originally in 1966 by Ace; May, 1979 by DAW
Cover Artist: Jordi Peñalver (1979 DAW edition)
Publisher Blurb (DAW edition): Petaja's Kalevalan Classics
"The Force is from outside our time and space, from outside anything we can humanly comprehend. I Conceive of a great machine somewhere -- alien beyond human thought -- sending out tendrils like electric impulses.... In the days of the Kalevalan heroes, actually before our present cycle of civilization began, the Force was thrust in on Earth...."
Such is the theme of the first novel of Emil Petaja's classic science fiction series based on the brilliant epic of Finnish lore, the Kalevala. A mighty saga of heroes and witches, of beings from the stars and beyond the stars, of powers that came to Earth and shaped humanity.
A student of the Kalevala, Petaja has created from its mind-stunning material a cycle of four novels -- science fiction fantasy adventure of the highest order -- retelling in the eyes of modern scientific conjecture the great worlds-shaking events that may be concealed by the folklore of an ancient and mysterious people.
SAGA OF LOST EARTHS, with which is included a second complete novel, THE STAR MILL, brings two of these unique sf classics back to today's modern sf readers.
Notes: This novel and the others in the series are based on the Finnish epic Kalevala written/compiled by Elias Lönnrot and drawn from Karelian and Finnish folklore and mythology.
The DAW version of this book includes Saga of Lost Earths, the first in the series, and The Star Mill.
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