# Starchild Trilogy

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The **Starchild Trilogy** is a series of three science fiction novels written by [Frederik Pohl](/source/Frederik_Pohl) and [Jack Williamson](/source/Jack_Williamson). In the future depicted in this series, mankind is ruled by a brutal [totalitarian government](/source/Totalitarian_government) known as the *Plan of Man*, enforced by a computerized [surveillance state](/source/Surveillance_state).

The books in the series were:

- *[The Reefs of Space](/source/The_Reefs_of_Space)* (1964)
- *[Starchild](/source/Starchild_(novel))* (1965)
- *[Rogue Star](/source/Rogue_Star_(novel))* (1969)

An omnibus edition titled *The Starchild Trilogy* was first published by the Science Fiction Book Club in October 1977.

## Reception

[Algis Budrys](/source/Algis_Budrys) praised *The Reefs of Space* as "a most rewarding piece of science fiction . . . full of inventions [and] the constant generation of science-fiction ideas and science-fiction characters." However, he criticized its ending as "anticlimactic" and for its failure to resolve themes involving several prominent characters.[1]

## References

1. "Galaxy Bookshelf," [*Galaxy*](/source/Galaxy_Science_Fiction), February 1965, pp.158-59.

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