The Crystal Egg

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"The Crystal Egg" is a short story written by H. G. Wells in 1897.

The story tells of a shop owner, named Mr. Cave, who finds a strange crystal egg that serves as a window into the planet Mars.

The story was written the same year in which Wells was serialising The War of the Worlds in Pearson's Magazine, a year before it was published as a novel. Because of the vaguely similar descriptions of the Martians and their machines, "The Crystal Egg" is often considered a prequel to The War of the Worlds, though there is no clear foreshadowing of the events that transpire in the novel.

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• Text of The Crystal Egg from the Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library