Help--Can any DU sci-fi fans identify this book?

[bif]

I read it many years ago. It's about a research project where scientists are working on a way to travel into space through meditation. A young boy and girl are sucessful and near the end of the book, the older scientist (narrator) falls in love with the girl(she's older at this point). It may have been called something like Star Child or something like that. Can anyone help me here? I'd love to reread it but I don't know what it's called or who wrote it.

[Rowdyboy]

1. Its so familiar I can almost see it....

Star Child sounds like the right title but I can't find any record of it on the internet. Alot of astral projection, right? Its been over 30 years since I read it, so I'm totally lost on the author.

[bif]

2. Exactly!

That's about when I read it. And it was about astral projection. I did find something called Star Child on the net but it's fantasy and a musical/movie to boot:
http://www.ldsvideostore.com/StarChildNovel.htm

[TrogL]

3. Stardance

by the Robinsons (Spider and Jeanne)

[bif]

5. Don't think so.

But thanks. I found a review of this book and it doesn't sound right. I don't recall any aliens in it. Here's the review I found..
http://www.ad-astra.demon.nl/esseff/millennial-14.html

[Kellanved]

4. don't know the book

But there is a "Starchild" book by by Jack Williamson and Frederik Pohl from 1965.
http://www.scifan.com/titles/title.asp?TI_titleid=10895
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0671655582/qid=1066155922/sr=2-2/ref=sr_2_2/002-9403810-8976824

[bif]

6. This might be it

It's apparently a trilogy. I'll have to see if I can track it down. Thanks.

[Kellanved]

9. here is a review

doesn't sound like your book.
--snip
The Starchild Trilogy
by Frederick Pohl
© 1977 ISBN Unknown


This book is actually three novels, The Reefs of Space,Starchild, and Rogue Star. The first two novels are kind of reminicient of Orson Wells' big brother. Earth is controlled by the "Plan of Man" which in effect is a super computer which dictates the management of earth. There are, naturally, rebels who are opposed to the plan and want to see it end. These rebels live in the space beyond the solar system where comets are born.

Things really start to become interesting when in the second novel, a creature known as the starchild sends a message to the plan of man that its rule is at an end. If the plan of man refuses to abdicate, the starchild will extinguish the sun and end all life on Earth. The plan of man refuses and sends men out to the reefs of space to stop this starchild. This just makes things worse.

The third novel is even wilder. After the coming of the starchild, it is discovered that many of the stars in the sky are actually sentient beings. A human decides to create a rogue star. A rogue star being one that has no ties to the stellar community and would seem to worship chaos. A battle of stellar proportions shapes up as a small group of humans try to stop a stellar war.

...
--snap
http://pages.sssnet.com/rags/review2.html

[Rowdyboy]

7. BINGO! Found it!

Incredible. "Star Rover" was Jack London's last novel and I can't believe I didn't remember that. Published in 1915

on edit: looking at your original description, I'm not sure. See what you think.

http://www.booklore.co.uk/PastReviews/LondonJack/TheStarRover/TheStarRoverReview.htm

[bif]

8. Still not it.

this story took place and was probably written in the mid to late 60s. And it involved sort of a project of scientists (Govt.?). And they were doing astral projection out into spce. I sort of remember something about how if they trained several people to do it, their combined power would help them achieve their goal. And there were a couple of special young children (born in space or to astronauts?) who were being trained as they were believed to be more in tune to astral projection due to their being born in space.

[boilerbabe]

10. I think I read that one, too

All I can think of is that it is co-authored, and Arthur Clarke and Gentry Lee come to mind...