![]() ![]() Religion, and in particular religious faith, are central themes in "The Star." The narrative is the interior monologue of the central character, a Jesuit astrophysicist. ![]() Clarke's story similarly places the human race in an intergalactic context that suggests that the planet Earth and its inhabitants may not be all that important in the cosmic scheme of things In Wells's story, a planetoid's collision with Jupiter and the destruction of that planet chillingly reminds the human race that it could just as easily have been destroyed. The story was written in a state of unusually intense emotion needless to say, it wasn't even placed among the 'also rans."' The story deals with themes treated in a work by H. In his introduction to this collection, Clarke noted that he wrote the story for a contest in the London Observer on the subject "2500 AD." "I realized that I had a theme already to hand. It was reprinted in a collection of Clarke's short stories called The Other Side of the Sky in 1958. Clarke's short story "The Star" appeared in the science fiction magazine Infinity Science Fiction in 1955. ![]()
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