Star-Begotten

"Star Begotten" is a 1937 novel by H. G. Wells. It tells the story of a series of men who conjecture upon the possibility of the human race being altered by Martians to replace their own dying planet.

The first (British) edition of this novel gives the title as two words: "Star Begotten". The title is hyphenated in the first U.S. edition: "Star-Begotten".

The book readdresses the idea of the existence of Martians, famously written about in "The War of the Worlds" (1898). The dialogue of "Star-Begotten" makes brief and cursory references Wells's earlier novel "The War of the Worlds" , referring to it as having been written by "Conan Doyle or one of those people".

Plot introduction

The protagonist of the story Joseph Davis, who is an author of popular histories, becomes overtaken with suspicion that he and his family have already been exposed and are starting to change. [ [http://www.upne.com/0-8195-6729-9.html - University Press of New England] (2006) upne.com.]

In other works

At the end of "Sherlock Holmes's War of the Worlds", Professor Challenger indicates that the "Martians" (not really from Mars in the story) from "The War of the Worlds" are the same Martians from "Star-Begotten", and hints at the start of the Martian alteration-program.

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