I Love The Colorful Stars

A Weird Star is a classic place-setter in fiction. Put a Weird Star in the sky, even if it never has anything to do with the plot, and you know we're somewhere different and alien. Anything that's clearly not our Sun, and you're cooking with gas. Maybe it's a binary system, and there's two suns. Maybe it's large and looming. Maybe it's even flickering, like Jack Vance used, to excellent effect . B