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H.G. Wells. Star-Begotten
Star-Begotten
Table of Contents
I. — THE MIND OF MR. JOSEPH DAVIS IS GREATLY TROUBLED
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II. — MR. JOSEPH DAVIS LEARNS ABOUT COSMIC RAYS
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III. — MR. JOSEPH DAVIS WRESTLES WITH AN INCREDIBLE IDEA
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IV. — DR. HOLDMAN STEDDING IS INFECTED WITH THE IDEA
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V. — PROFESSOR ERNEST KEPPEL TAKES UP. THE IDEA IN HIS OWN PECULIAR FASHION
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VI. — OPENING PHASES OF THE GREAT EUGENIC RESEARCH
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VII. — THE WORLD BEGINS TO HEAR ABOUT THE MARTIANS
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VIII. — HOW THESE STAR-BEGOTTEN PEOPLE. MAY PRESENTLY GET TOGETHER
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IX. — PROFESSOR KEPPEL IS INSPIRED. TO FORETELL THE END OF HUMANITY
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X. — MR. JOSEPH DAVIS TEARS UP A MANUSCRIPT
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THE END
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H.G. Wells
Published by Good Press, 2021
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He had never liked her people, which was odd because he had hardly seen anything of them. She had come into his world, as it seemed at first, romantically. He had met her at a publisher's cocktail party, she had been invited there rather for her ambitions than her performance, and she had told him then that her people lived in the Outer Hebrides and that they opposed her wish to study and write. She had just spoken of them as 'people'. She had won scholarships at a Glasgow high school. She had got to the university and so worked her way to London in defiance of them. She had written poetry, she told him, and she wanted to see it printed.
But London, she said, wasn't quite what she had expected it to be. London astonished, frightened, and stimulated her, and kept on seeming stranger and stranger. She was not growing accustomed to it. People were always saying and doing the most unaccountable things.
