Star Bright
Unknown
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Description
Bryce Walton wrote Star Bright for Science Fiction Quarterly in May 1951. Artificial dreams were not enough for Andy Brooks, its headnote says: he was determined to find them in reality. Brooks stands on the balcony of a workers' center apartment, hating his wife's face, and looks at the moon.
In his sensory-show adventures he fought beside a lost sea for the love of the most beautiful actress of the studio city. Reality gives him the Palisades, a tired marriage, and dreams by subscription. Walton, a steady hand in the postwar magazines, writes the dream-machine story as a marriage story. The brightness of the title belongs to the screen, and Brooks's hunger for the real thing drives the trouble.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Unknown |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 32 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |