It was too anthropomorphic to consider the lifecycle of a s… - Stephen Baxter

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It was too anthropomorphic to consider the lifecycle of a star as some analogy of human birth, life and death. A star was a construct of physical processes; the evolution it went through was simply a search for equilibrium stages between changing, opposing forces. There was no life or death involved, no loss or gain: just process.
Why shouldn’t it be beautiful?

Stephen Baxter

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Stephen Baxter (born November 13, 1957) is a British science fiction writer.

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Alternative Names: Stephen Michael Baxter

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