Are you ready to enter Stapledon-Woolf space?
Stapledon-Woolf space is a fiction-state in which the scale characteristics of both these writers exist simultaneously. Or, more simply, a single sentence in which galactic grandeur is meshed with some small matter, something human and intimate.
http://damiengwalter.com/2011/01/12/are-you-ready-to-enter-stapledon-woolf-space/