Edited sentence: Both The Star and the novel The Songs of Distant Earth that was published three decades later are so similar to Rescue Party (the first published story of Clarke) that they could simply be adaptations of that original story.In The Star, it is the sun shining on an extraterrestrial world, and the entire civilization is destroyed; in other two stories, it is our Sun, and many humans survive through a twist in the tale.In all three stories, the star shining on the home of an evolved life form explodes, killing all life on its planets