In the short stories of "A Dream of Stars", there is often recurring themes. One of the things that Brian Caswell uses in these stories is self-esteem. Brian Caswell repeats this in most of the stories in "a Dream of Stars". In the story "Freeze" there is a Character called Simon. He doesn't receive much attention from his parents and he likes to receive a lot of attention. When he is a young child, Simon …showed first 75 words of 629 total…

…showed last 75 words of 629 total…in the story we find out that Sam is a clone, made by an alien and she is an experiment. She was formed by Colin's dreams and thoughts about the perfect girl. As soon as Colin finds out that she is a clone, or an alien, he fells discussed and extremely sad but soon and after he hears an explanation from Sam he finds out that she still is human and he still loves her.