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ID: 770364

Title: Star

Author: H.G. Wells

Narrator: Mark Bowen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 0:33:36

Language: English

Release date: 04-02-24

Publisher: Bookwire

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Essays & Anthologies, Classics

Summary:

'The Star' is an 1897 apocalyptic short story by H. G. Wells.

Here is an impressive story based on the inter-action of planetary bodies and of the sun upon them. A great star is seen approaching the earth. At first it is only an object of interest to the general public, but there is an astronomer on the earth, who is watching each phase and making mathematical calculations, for he knows the intimate relation of gravitation between bodies and the effect on rotating bodies of the same force from an outside source. He fears all sorts of wreckage on our earth. He warns the people, but they, as usual, discount all he says and label him mad. But he was not mad. H. G. Wells, in his own way, gives us a picturesque description of the approach of the new body through long days and nightshe tells how the earth and natural phenomena of the earth will react. Though this star never touches our sphere, the devastation and destruction wrought by it are complete and horrible. The story is correct in its astronomical aspects.

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