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uiuccsb!akhtar    Dec 11 16:18:00 1983

I saw the 'new' (in paperback) novel by Pohl at the bookstore recently,
I think it is called Starburst. The blurb on the cover sounded very
reminiscent of a short story he wrote some time ago called
'The Gold at the Starbow's End'. Can anyone out there enlighten me
on this? Is his novel a lengthened version of the short story?

	...pur_ee!uiucdcs!akhtar

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ucbcad!kalash    Dec 13 12:07:00 1983

> I saw the 'new' (in paperback) novel by Pohl at the bookstore recently,
> I think it is called Starburst. The blurb on the cover sounded very
> reminiscent of a short story he wrote some time ago called
> 'The Gold at the Starbow's End'. Can anyone out there enlighten me
> on this? Is his novel a lengthened version of the short story?
> 
> 	...pur_ee!uiucdcs!akhtar

It is indeed the novelization of his short story "The Gold at Starbow's End".
However, I liked the short story much better.

			Joe Kalash
			kalash@berkeley
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"Starburst" by Frederik Pohl is indeed an expanded version of his
previous story "The Gold at Starbow's End."  I'm sorry to say it
suffers by the expansion.