Star, Bright

by Mark Clifton

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Genres: Short Stories, Science Fiction

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First published January 1, 1952

About the author

Mark Irwin Clifton (1906 - Nov. 1963) was an American science fiction writer. Clifton began publishing in May of 1952 with the often anthologized story "What Have I Done?".

Most of his work fits into one of two series. The "Bossy" sequence was written alone, and in collaboration with both Alex Apostolides and Frank Riley. The "Ralph Kennedy" series, which is lighter in tone, was mostly written solo, including the novel "When They Come From Space", although there was one collaboration with Apostolides.

Clifton gained his greatest success with his novel They'd Rather Be Right (a.k.a. The Forever Machine), co-written with Riley, which was serialized in Astounding in 1954 and went on to win the Hugo Award, perhaps the most contentious novel ever to win the award.

Clifton is also known today for his short story "Star, Bright", his first of three appearances in Horace Gold's Galaxy (July 1952), about a super-intelligent toddler with psi abilities. From Clifton's correspondence we know that Gold "editorially savaged" the story, which appeared in severely truncated or altered form. The story has been compared favorably to Kuttner and Moore's "Mimsy Were the Borogoves", which was published in Astounding nine years earlier.

Clifton worked as a personnel manager during his life and interviewed close to 100,000 people. This experience formed much of Clifton's attitude about the delusions people entertain of themselves, but also the greatness of which they are capable.

Reviews

[William · Rating 4 out of 5]

Entertaining listening🎧
Another will written short story by Mark Clifton about a single dad and daughter who is very smart. I would recommend to readers looking for a quick cute read. Enjoy the adventure of all kinds of bookx. 2022

I listened to this as part of The 11th Science Fiction Megapack. It was very interesting with will developed characters lots of action and misdirection leading to the conclustion. 2023

pulbished in the 1950s

[Luke John · Rating 5 out of 5]

Short story of its time, evident in the apparent fascination with ESP of the era (especially in SF authors). Enjoyable read.

[Yibbie · Rating 3 out of 5]

I really like old sci-fi radio shows such as X minus 1 & Dimension X . My favorite by far though is X -1. More of its stories lean to the light-hearted comedy side. A Gun for a Dinosaur, Star Bright, A Logic Named Joe, $1,000 Dollars a Plate, A Pail of Air, The Roads Must Roll, C-Chute, Skulking Permit, How To and The Girls from Earth, are some of my favorite Old Time Radio shows. That said you can understand why I was so excited when I found free online copies of the original Galaxy Science-Fiction Magazine articles. This was the first one I read.
This one was both better and worse than the radio show. It has more details to the plot. The characters are more developed especially the narrator and Robert. Their motives and the ‘world’ are better developed as well. It’s ever as mind-bending, and they throw around and twist science to their own ends very well. But it doesn’t have quite the same flavor. Star isn’t quite as innocent, and the surprise isn’t quite as startlingly sudden as in the radio show. One more point, there are a couple of curse words in the printed version. I could have done without that.
If you are looking for a fun short read, this is pretty good.

[Adam Leon · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'm giving this book three stars for the sole reason that, as a short story, it is incomplete. The build up to the end of the story definitely shows that it's an unfinished piece of literature. The ending to the book is the moment of climax with no resolution outside of the setup of a far more interesting story we won't get to know, because of this, the entire short story feels like a setup to a punchline we never hear. It's a great short story that explores ESP abilities in a "thoughts can bend space-time" way with an academic understanding of dimensionality, but fails to creature an interesting narrative outside of just the express exploration of powers.

[Forked Radish · Rating 5 out of 5]

Brilliant, yet stupid, in its profundity. Time isn't a traversable dimension, it's a process. Think of a wind-up clock. The past and future make a dimension, however. This dimension is called... 🥁Drumroll… Eventuality. 🤓 BTW thoroughly ripped off by Madeleine D'engle in A Wrinkle in Time 10 years later (1962).

[Carole O'Brien · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a really good book about a little girl who had esp powers who could do things the rest of us cold not.

[Andy Hickman · Rating 3 out of 5]

STAR, BRIGHT by Mark Clifton
'Bright kids' who are gifted with ESP and time- travel capabilities. (3 stars)

[A Hoppy Reader · Rating 4 out of 5]

4 stars
They were so afraid of anti-intellectualism (and they were partially right) but they forgot to warn against moral nihilism.