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james_davis_nicollDoes anyone remember an SF novel from the 1980s about interstellar entities who noticed that occasionally star systems would start emitting annoying radio noise that would go away if the entities just turned the stars off for a bit?
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Date: 2020-11-07 04:10 am (UTC)Sounds a little bit like Steven Baxter's Xylee Cycle, wherein the dark matter Photino Birds disliked unstable stars that did things like leave the main sequence and supernova--so they started aging all the stars to nice stable white dwarfs and red dwarfs. The normal matter inhabitants of the universe disagreed with this...