Another find-this-story question
July 17, 2022 6:14 PM Subscribe
Short story, quite possibly but not necessarily by Ray Bradbury. The light that humans saw as the star of Bethlehem turns out to have been generated by an incident (probably a star exploding or similar) that caused the death of a non-human population. I would most likely have read this in the 1980s. What was this story?
Response by poster: Aaaand as usual with this sort of question MeFi nails it in less than 5 minutes. Thanks justkevin!
posted by 2 cats in the yard at 6:26 PM on July 17, 2022 [2 favorites]
posted by 2 cats in the yard at 6:26 PM on July 17, 2022 [2 favorites]
The Twilight Zone did a very disappointing production of The Star. It tried to "correct" Clarke's bleak rational ending with "well, they were nearly dead anyway, so why not blow them up." God's still a good guy! Yay! Rod Serling and GRR Martin probably grit their teeth over this.
posted by SPrintF at 7:28 PM on July 17, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by SPrintF at 7:28 PM on July 17, 2022 [1 favorite]
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posted by justkevin at 6:18 PM on July 17, 2022 [6 favorites]