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From: turner@rand-unix@sri-unix.UUCP
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Subject: "Star Bright"?
Message-ID: <4533@sri-arpa.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 25-Aug-83 11:23:00 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 25 11:23:00 1983
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  A long time ago (in a galaxy far, far away) I read a short story with
which I was very impressed.  I've been trying to find it ever since with
very little luck.

  The story was title "Star Bright" (I think) and follows is a short
synopsis:

  Star is the daughter of a widower.  She is uncommonly intelligent for a
human being, so much so that she classes humans in to three groups:
Brights (her kind), Tweens (human geniuses) and Stupids (the rest of the
human race).  She arranges to have another "Bright" move in next door (a
boy, slightly older than Star).
  The two of them begin exploring their powers.  They can move through time
by a process that is visualized as enclosing yourself in a Mobius Strip and
twisting it.  The father finds out, and after sufficient explanation is
also able to do this.
  Shortly after this, the two children disappear.  They had been experimenting
with the Mobius Strip process using a tesseract.  The story ends (hauntingly)
with the father trying to duplicate the process to go to wherever it is that
his children went in an attempt to help her if she's in trouble.  The last
line trails off...

  If you can give me a pointer to this story I'd really appreciate it.  I
read it eleven years ago.
					-- Scott R. Turner
					   turner@rand-unix
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