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"This person is not even human. It's impossible for me to diagnose the injury or illness of such a structure as his!" With these words and a worried frown, Doc Smithers sums up the case of the strange creature that lay on Ron Barron's bed. For the boy, Clonar, is like nothing earth's medical books have ever cataloged. And the day Ron Barron found him, staggering away from the wrecked metal disk that lay hidden near Longview, is one that put earth's existence in jeopardy!
In SON OF THE STARS, Raymond Jones has written of a forthright friendship between a young castaway from space and his earthly counterpart. How a cold and suspicious military, recognizing Clonar only as an alien from an astonishingly advanced civilization, turns friendship into treachery that threatens earth's existence, makes this an electrifying story with a thought-provoking theme. In scenes uncomfortably vivid, you'll meet soldiers and citizens of a typical American city; people like calculating General Gillispie and frightened Mrs. Barron, whose reactions to an "interplanetary" situation bring the world to the brink of destruction.
Clonar's words, "They're coming to destroy your world!" refer to a planet whose wars and strife might shortly spread to other worlds. Climaxed with a scene of power and drama unmatched in science fiction, SON OF THE STARS is a breath-taking book you won't put down until the very last page - and won't be able to forget until men reach the stars and learn for themselves!
Raymond F. Jones was an American science fiction author. Between 1951 and 1978, he published sixteen novels and dozens of stories. He is best known for his 1952 novel, THIS ISLAND EARTH, which was adapted into a critically acclaimed 1955 film.
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- Published on: 2014-01-02
- Released on: 2014-01-02
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About the Author
Raymond F. Jones was an American science fiction author. Between 1951 and 1978, he published sixteen novels and dozens of stories. He is best known for his 1952 novel, THIS ISLAND EARTH, which was adapted into a critically acclaimed 1955 film.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
The Kindness of Strangers
By Paul Camp
_Son of the Stars_ (1952) by Raymond F. Jones was one of 36 juveniles published by Winston in the 1950s. It was common practice for Winston to have their authors write factual forewards or afterwards to their novels. Presumably the notion was that these would help to make them "respectable" to parents and librarians, though I suspect that most librarians didn't need that kind of trickery.
Richard Marsten's _Danger: Dinosaurs!_ (1953) had an essay on an imaginary time-slip and history. Chad Oliver's _Mists of Dawn_ (1952) had a detailed introduction to anthropology. Lester del Rey, in _Marooned on Mars_ (1952), discussed the history of the "Martian canals" in astronomy and speculated about the possibility of life on Mars. Jack Vance's _Vandals of the Void_ (1953) predicted that we would enter a future age of piracy. Philip Latham explained how he used some out-of-date astronomy as a basis for creating fictional life in _Missing Men of Saturn_ (1953).
Raymond F. Jones's essay was a tribute to the "back-yard scientists of America" (v):
A ten-year-old boy in Texas begins the search by producing rotten-egg gas with his Christmas chemistry set. At sixteen, he has a well-equipped basement laboratory. A girl in Oregon is astonished at the wonder of her first glimpse through a microscope in junior high. When she enters college, she takes her laboratory with her-- a box containing her own microscope and a few hundred slides. (v)
This topic is one that seems to run through much of Jones's writing. Like Hal Clement, Jones likes to write about scientists-- both professional and amateur-- who engage in the great game of experimentation and observation. At one point, the alien boy Clonar (who knows how to build a transmitter that can communicate over light-years) touches the hero's short-wave radio and says, "It must be-- fun, anyway" (52). Clonar is being polite, but he is also telling the truth. Science _is_ fun. It's not so much the level of technology that your culture may have that counts. It's how well you play the game. Ultimately, it is decided that Earth must learn to make her own way-- both scientifically and morally.
Why morally? Because Clonar is an alien who crash lands on Earth. He is dependent upon the kindness of strangers. He gets it from some people-- the backyard inventer hero, his girlfriend, a crusty country doctor, and an intelligent collie. But often, he does not. The hero's mother is frightened of him. He is arrested by the military. Some of the military (like Colonel Middleton) are unimaginative and paranoid. Others (like General Gillispie) are more intelligent but overly ambitious. The hero's father is tolerant of Clonar, but he has a tendency to believe what those in authority tell him is the truth. Earth people have potential and basic goodness, but they still have a long way to go.
If it is at all possible, get the first edition with the original cover by Alex Schomberg. It depicts a fleet of flying saucers gracefully sailing from a planet with a reddish sandy desert and a blue ocean toward Earth hanging prominently in the sky. But I have sometimes wondered... What is the planet in the foreground? Not the Moon. Not with an ocean. But a planet such as Venus or Mars wouldn't show the Earth as prominently in the sky. Mars wouldn't be likely to have an ocean. Given the scientific knowledge of the day, Venus might have an ocean. But it would also have been cloud-shrouded, hiding any view of outer space. Clonar's world is in another galaxy. So what is the world in the forground? Well, never mind. It's still a spectacular cover.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Changed my life
By A Small Change
This book was one that introduced me to the concept of encounters of the third kind. As in all the Winston series, The hero is a young boy/man who has defining coming of age discoveries which we get to learn as we go through their adventure. This is not the best in the series but affected me for the rest of my life.
Son of the Stars had throwaway dialogue that would stay with me because it became the base belief of how I saw myself in the world. I could do anything I put my mind to, even if I'd never seen it.
Ron is the high school kid that finds a crashed spaceship. In it is an alien teenager named Clonar he eventually befriends. At one point Ron asked Clonar if he’d like to drive his car. Ron briefly explained the controls of the car. In a few moments Clonar's skills seemed equal to Ron's.
“Is there anything you can't learn in 10 seconds flat?” said Ron.
“We are trained to do things this way.”
“How can you train to do something you don't even know you're going to be called upon to do?"
Clonar smiled. “It's like providing a workshop with every tool that may ever be needed instead of waiting until a given job comes along and then assembling the tools one by one. That is about the best analogy I can give.”
From then on, I would look at anything as fixable or learnable so built and did things i had never even attempted before.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
I enjoyed every page of this book and made sure that ...
By Allan Ecker
Son of the Stars by Raymond F Jones is a science fiction novel written in the 1950’s
The story starts with Ron Barron, a backyard scientist and amateur radio ham looking for a meteorite that has fallen to earth in the mountains near his home. While he is looking for the meteorite with his dog he finds a flying saucer that crashed along with a young man of his age who is injured and requires medical help. With the help of his girlfriend Ann, Ron brings the injured person to his home and sends for the family doctor. The three of them learn the spaceman’s name is Clonar. Ron tells his family about Clonar, and Mrs. Barron becomes frightened and tells Ron to get rid of him. Ron’s father is asked to contact the military to see what can be done to help Clonar get back home.
Here the story takes the typical story line that anything that cannot be understood must be dangerous and must be destroyed or taken by the military. The authorities throw all kinds of roadblocks up to stop Clonar from contacting his people to get home, and try to force him to reveal the secretes of his flying saucer. Only after Ron makes a deal with the general in charge of the case, General Gillespie and Clonar, is Clonar allowed to contact his people. Clonar learns that the fleet of his ships is on the way to destroy the Earth because of being shot down.
Clonar is able to change the mind of the Fleet Commander to stop the destruction of the Earth. The fleet than sends a ship to Earth to pick up Clonar. When Clonar says goodbye to Ron, he tells him that there can be no communication between each other.
SON of the STARS is a breath-taking fast action story you won't want to put down until the very last page, and doesn’t end here, but continues in the sequel Planet of Light. I enjoyed every page of this book and made sure that I read the sequel to complete the story.
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