Star-Begotten

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Star-Begotten is a 1937 book by H. G. Wells. It tells the story of a series of men who conjecture upon the possibility of the human races' genetic code being altered by Martians to replace their own dying planet. The book readdresses the idea of the existence of Martians, famously written about in The War of the Worlds (1898), a book which is referred to, briefly, in Star-Begotten.

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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.[1]

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H. G. Wells
Books

Floor Games · Little Wars · A Modern Utopia · The New World Order · The Open Conspiracy · The Outline of History · Russia in the Shadows · The Science of Life · The Shape of Things to Come · The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents · Travels of a Republican Radical in Search of Hot Water · World Brain

Novels

Ann Veronica · The First Men in the Moon · The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth · The History of Mr. Polly · The Invisible Man · The Island of Dr Moreau · Kipps · Love and Mr Lewisham · Men Like Gods · The Sleeper Awakes · Star-Begotten · The Time Machine · Tono-Bungay · The War in the Air · The War of the Worlds · The Wheels of Chance · The World Set Free

Short Stories

The Chronic Argonauts · The Country of the Blind · The Crystal Egg · The Land Ironclads · The Man Who Could Work Miracles · The Red Room · The Stolen Body · A Story of the Days To Come · A Vision of Judgment

Works

The Man Who Could Work Miracles · Things to Come