Starchild

Starchild or Star Child may refer to:

Companies:

• Starchild Productions, a Sydney-based production company
• StarChild, the anime production and soundtrack imprint of the Japanese firm King Records

Folklore and fictional characters:

• In folklore and fiction, a kind of changeling or foundling, a child seemingly having fallen from the stars and not of ordinary human descent (as in Oscar Wilde's story mentioned below)
  • Inspired by this, the pseudoscientific New Age concept of indigo children and the New Age belief in star people
• Starchild (comics), a comic book series and character
• The Star Child, the entity main character David Bowman is transformed into at the ending of 2001: A Space Odyssey
• The English translation of Superman's Kryptonian name (Kal-El)

Music:

• "Starchild", a Star One song from the 2003 album Space Metal
• "Starchild", a Wintersun song from the 2004 album Wintersun
• "Starchild", a Freedom Call song from the 2005 album The Circle of Life
• "Starchild", a Jamiroquai song from the 2005 album Dynamite
• Starchild (band), a Canadian band
• Starchild (O.C. album), 2005
• "Starchild" (song), a song by Level 42
• Starchild (Teena Marie album), 1984
• "Mothership Connection (Star Child)", a 1976 song by the band Parliament originally released as "Star Child"

Novels and short works:

• Star Child, a 1998 science fiction novel by James P. Hogan
• Star Child, a novel by Fred Mustard Stewart
• "The Star-Child", a story in the A House of Pomegranates collection by Oscar Wilde
• Starchild Trilogy by Frederik Pohl and Jack Williamson

People:

• Starchild, alter ego of rocker Paul Stanley
• Starchild, alter ego of funk musician Garry Shider (1953–2010)
• Starchild Abraham Cherrix, a juvenile cancer patient in the USA
• Adam Starchild, writer and fraudster

See also

• Starchild skull