Fairy Tale Spotlight: Star Bright [Short Story Review]

"Star Bright" is a short science fiction story written by Mark Clifton. It was published in 1952. I actually was able to predict a couple of things in this one, but it wasn't too bad.

This is a story about a little girl named Star who was a child prodigy. She was insanely intelligent well beyond the years of any humans. In fact, nobody really ever gets as smart as she did. She basically was super human. Her mental powers also involved ESP, telepathy, and eventually she found a way to teleport and travel through time.

The story is told from the perspective of the father. He is not at all anything like her, but the interesting thing is that he can kind of do those things by observing her. He does not fully understand it, but seeing is believing. Does this sound familiar to anyone? Remember anything from the Bible that may be similar to this?

Anyways, I predicted very early on that she had found a way to access a tesseract in order to teleport and travel through time. They were not using that word, but they were describing it to a point where I was just figuring it out. They do actually use that word later, leaving me fairly satisfied.

I think this story is actually pretty cool. It deals with ideals that have a basis in reality. I think people should read it. I don't want to spoil it though. I think there's enough reason here for people to seek this one out. It was pretty cool and kind of shocking that it came from 1952. I recommend it.

This blog was written on September 13, 2024.

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