Wall Around a Star

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First edition
Author	Frederik Pohl Jack Williamson
Cover artist	David B. Mattingly
Country	United States
Language	English
Series	Saga of Cuckoo
Genre	Science fiction novel
Publisher	Del Rey Books
Publication date	January 12, 1983
Pages	275
Awards	1984 Locus Award - Best SF Novel (21st place)
ISBN	0-345-28995-1
OCLC	9184254 [1]
Preceded by	Farthest Star

Wall Around a Star is the second book of the Saga of Cuckoo series, following Farthest Star. The author is Frederik Pohl, in collaboration with Jack Williamson. The book was published by Del Rey Books on January 12, 1983, with an ISBN of 0-345-28995-1. The cover art for the 1983 edition was done by David Mattingly.^[2]

In this novel linguist Jen Babylon is called on to translate alien records which may explain the nature of "Cuckoo", a sphere built around a star, and thus save the galaxy.^[3]

References

↑ "Wall Around a Star". OCLC Worldcat. Retrieved 1 April 2014.
↑ "Book Information: Wall Around a Star". Internet Book List. Retrieved 2013-05-14.
↑ Nickerson, Susan L (1983-02-15). "Wall Around a Star (book)". Library Journal 108 (4): 415. |access-date= requires |url= (help)

Works by Frederik Pohl

Undersea Trilogy (with Jack Williamson)	Undersea Quest (1954) Undersea Fleet (1956) Undersea City (1958)

Heechee series	Gateway (1977) Beyond the Blue Event Horizon (1980) Heechee Rendezvous (1984) Annals of the Heechee (1987) The Gateway Trip (1990) The Boy Who Would Live Forever: A Novel of Gateway (2004)

Eschaton trilogy	The Other End of Time (1996) The Siege of Eternity (1997) The Far Shore of Time (1999)

Mars series	Man Plus (1976) Mars Plus (1994) (with Thomas T. Thomas)

Saga of Cuckoo (with Jack Williamson)	Farthest Star (1975) Wall Around A Star (1983)

Starchild Trilogy (with Jack Williamson)	The Reefs of Space (1964) Starchild (1965) Rogue Star (1969)

Space Merchants series	The Space Merchants (1953) (with Cyril M. Kornbluth) The Merchants' War (1984) Venus, Inc. (1985 Omnibus)

Other	Search the Sky (1954) (with Cyril M. Kornbluth) Gladiator-At-Law (1955) (with Cyril M. Kornbluth) Preferred Risk (1955) (with Lester Del Rey) Slave Ship (1956) Presidential Year (1958) (with Cyril M. Kornbluth) Wolfbane (1959) (with Cyril M. Kornbluth) Drunkard's Walk (1960) A Plague of Pythons (1964) The Age of the Pussyfoot (1965) Jem (1979) The Cool War (1981) Syzygy (1981) Starburst (1982) The Years of the City (1984) Black Star Rising (1985) The Coming of the Quantum Cats (1986) Terror (1986) Chernobyl (1987) Land's End (1988) (with Jack Williamson) The Day the Martians Came (1988) Narabedla Ltd. (1988) Homegoing (1989) The World at the End of Time (1990) Outnumbering the Dead (1990) Stopping at Slowyear (1991) The Singers of Time (1991) (with Jack Williamson) Mining the Oort (1992) The Voices of Heaven (1994) O Pioneer! (1998) The Last Theorem (2008) (with Arthur C. Clarke) All the Lives He Led (2011)

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