Dull drab social drama set in the guise of a sci-fi novel. A star has blown and earth might just get blasted is the sci-fi part. The remaining is about lovers, wives and husbands and families. It could as well have been anything - the characters we are supposed to care for might as well have been in danger of falling under bombing during war - they have nothing to do the star, and nor hasthe star anything to do with the story.