Stars in fiction: Difference between revisions

[[Frederik Pohl]]'s ''[[The World at the End of Time]]'' (1990) involves a story of immensely long-lived plasma-based intelligence dwelling in stars which are at war among themselves, which affects human colonists.<ref>[https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/599712.The_World_at_the_End_of_Time ''The World at the End of Time''], ''[[Goodreads]]''</ref><ref>[https://www.benespen.com/2015-1-1-the-world-at-the-end-of-time-book-review/ The World at the End of Time Book Review]</ref> Michael Page comments that in the novel Frederik Pohl combines many common themes of science fiction and "manages to tell a very human story amid the grand-scale setting of the universe".<ref> Michael R Page, ''Frederik Pohl'', University of Illinois Press, 2015, {{ISBN|0252097742}}, [https://books.google.com/books?id=OfCVCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA166 p. 166]</ref> The ideas of the novel were further elaborated in the 1991 "extravagant cosmological fantasy" ''The Singers of Time'' by Pohl and [[Jack Williamson]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Stableford |first=Brian |author-link=Brian Stableford |title=Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction Literature |date=2004 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=978-0-8108-4938-9 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=nzmIPZg5xicC&pg=PA268 p.268] |language=en |chapter=Barton, William R. |quote= }}</ref>