Star Begotten
Star Begotten is a 1937 novel by
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, which Wells had written about in The War of the Worlds (1898). The dialogue of Star Begotten makes brief references to Wells' earlier novel, referring to it as having been written by "Jules Verne, Conan Doyle, one of those fellows", as well as the concept of Big Brother, later written into George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949).
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.[2]
In other works
At the end of
In Nigel Kneale's 1958-59 BBC television serial Quatermass and the Pit and its 1967 movie adaptation, a discovery of strange fossils reveals that human evolution was altered by a dying race of Martians, in order to leave a legacy behind. This may have been inspired by the tale of H. G. Wells.[4]
References
- ^ H.G. Wells, Star Begotten, A Biological Fantasia (London: Sphere Books Limited, 1975), p. 75.
- ^ - University Press of New England (2006) upne.com.
- JSTOR 40649963.
- ISBN 9781909394476.
External links
- Star Begotten title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database