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.Can you name this story?- Scott C.
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Posted by John DeNardo at Saturday April 26, 2008 at 12:25 AM
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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
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