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Rogue Star

by Frederik Pohl, Jack Williamson

Published 1973ISBN 978-0-3452-3450-6

**Das Duell der lebenden Sterne** Sie nennen ihn den Outsider-Stern. Er ist von Menschen erschaffen, die ihn bald fürchten lernen. Denn er entwickelt ein eigenes Bewußtsein und eine eigene Intelligenz. Er wächst und wächst und entzieht sich der Kontrolle seiner Schöpfer. Seine Macht nimmt wahrhaft kosmische Ausmaße an. Menschen sind nicht mehr als Mikroben in seiner Sicht. Und er beschließt, sich mit Almalik zu messen, dem lebenden Stern, der das Universum regiert.

Beyond its central premise, the book can be read through the connected lenses of Fiction, Nonfiction, Science Fiction. Those themes offer useful points of attention as the characters, ideas, or world develop, especially where the book complicates the expectations of its primary category.

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Themes to notice

Fiction · Nonfiction · Science Fiction

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Content notes

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Reading experience

Balanced tone · Steady pace

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Rogue StarFrederik Pohl, Jack Williamson
Powerful4.7/5

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A quick reading snapshot

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Reading lengthLength not listed
Publication eraEarlier publicationFirst published or edition dated 1973
Primary categoryFictionAlso cataloged under Nonfiction and Science Fiction
ISBN-13
978-0-3452-3450-6
Language
English
Edition record
OL10681970M
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A more thoughtful way into this book

This guide uses the edition details and category signals above to help you choose deliberately. It does not replace the author's work or a full review.

Good to know

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Begin with its place in Fiction, then notice where the book resists that label.

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Read for connection, not completion.

Mark one passage that sharpens the book's central concern and one that complicates it. That tension often reveals more than a quick summary.

Three questions to carry with you

  1. What does the central character want, and what do they misunderstand about that desire?
  2. Which detail or relationship changes how you interpret the story?
  3. What feeling or question does the book leave with you after the plot moves on?

Editorial framework by Wesley Bryan, BookenDeX Founder and Editor.