The Time Laboratory

The Star

by H. G. Wells

A new star appears in the sky and will not stay where stars are meant to stay. Wells tells its approach as news, as sermon and as panic, then steps back at the very end to show how the whole catastrophe looked to the astronomers on Mars.

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Reading time

About 20 minutes

Where to find it

The Evening Room; The Time Laboratory

Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #67071. In the public domain in the United States.