SF Signal: Can You Name This Story (Part 4)

Can You Name This Story (Part 4)

Another reader writes in with a story description looking for a title. Do any of our readers out there know the title of this story? It's not much to go on. Consider it a challenge of your science fictional prowess!

I trying to find out if anyone remembers a SF book that I read 15 or 20 years ago, about a sun that becomes aware that it's intelligent and ponders it's existence and finally reaches out to other suns and communicates with them.
- Scott C.

Can you name this story?

Olaf Stapledon's novel STAR MAKER?

Posted by Anonymous on Saturday April 26, 2008 at 1:50 AM

Frederik Pohl's The World at the end of Time?

Posted by Tim R. Mortiss on Saturday April 26, 2008 at 3:21 AM

It reminds me of Frank Herbert's Whipping Star, but I don't think that's it.

Posted by Matthew Sanborn Smith on Saturday April 26, 2008 at 4:32 AM

My husband chimes in with "From a Changeling Star" by Jeffrey Carver. It's a sub-plot in that book.

Re: Anonymous - "Star Maker" was my first thought as well!

Posted by Karen Burnham on Saturday April 26, 2008 at 9:01 AM

Solaris by Stanislaw Lem?

Or is that a planet?

Posted by E_I on Saturday April 26, 2008 at 9:07 AM

My first thought was "From a Changeling Star" as well.

Posted by J Alan Erwine on Saturday April 26, 2008 at 12:14 PM

Ooh. That storyline sounds famiiar! But none of those title given sound familiar...

Posted by Kev on Saturday April 26, 2008 at 12:58 PM

I'm pretty sure Anonymous got it in one with "Starmaker." This is a big part of the latter half of the novel.

Posted by GC on Saturday April 26, 2008 at 1:42 PM

I'm not sure about "Starmaker" though -- in Stapledon everything is so impersonal. It's not a star realizing things and reaching out, it's the narrator realizing that stars have been doing this. Different POV, if you see what I mean.

Posted by Karen Burnham on Saturday April 26, 2008 at 2:08 PM

Rogue Star by Jack Williamson & Frederik Pohl?

Posted by Dan Geiser on Saturday April 26, 2008 at 5:55 PM

Rogue Star by Jack Williamson & Frederik Pohl?

Posted by Dan Geiser on Saturday April 26, 2008 at 5:56 PM

The beginning of Teletubbies!

Posted by Jeff P on Saturday April 26, 2008 at 8:06 PM