Thursday, February 28, 2019

Rogue Star

By Frederik Pohl and Jack Williamson

The stars are intelligent and mankind has joined the universe as equal citizens, living in peace and harmony with all the beings of the galaxies. Except for two weirdos who have decided that they want to create an intelligent star for themselves. Who knows why?
They set up their lab on Earth and create a tiny, intelligent star being. But things go wrong from the moment of the stars creation, when they are attacked by the Sun. The young star is not hurt but the two men are along with the girl friend of one of them.
The baby star arises and finds the humans and tries to help the most gravely injured of the three, the man with the girl friend. But the man dies and the star absorbs his knowledge and comes to the mistaken conclusion that it loves the girl just like the man did.
The star tries to woo the girl but she is freaked out and things go seriously wrong with the young star jumping to wrong conclusions and the poor girl becoming the object of its obsession.

This was a weird and stupid story. I wonder if the authors were on drugs when they wrote it. Maybe it would make more sense if the reader were on drugs too.

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