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    A Study Guide for Arthur C. Clarke's "Star"
    A Study Guide for Arthur C. Clarke's "Star"
    A Study Guide for Arthur C. Clarke's "Star"
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    A Study Guide for Arthur C. Clarke's "Star"

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    A Study Guide for Arthur C. Clarke's "Star," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateJul 6, 2016
    ISBN9781535834049
    A Study Guide for Arthur C. Clarke's "Star"

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      A Study Guide for Arthur C. Clarke's "Star" - Gale

      1

      The Star

      Arthur C. Clarke

      1955

      Introduction

      Arthur C. Clarke’s short story The Star appeared in the science fiction magazine Infinity Science Fiction in 1955. It was reprinted in a collection of Clarke’s short stories called The Other Side of the Sky in 1958. 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. 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. G. Wells also titled The Star (1897). 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. 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 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. He is aboard a starship on a mission to investigate the causes of a supernova in a distant galaxy. He and the rest of the crew discover the artifacts of a highly developed civilization,

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