# The Star

Author: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946

Genre: Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67071

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Star+Wells&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Here is an impressive story based on the inter-action of planetary bodies and of the sun upon them. A great star is seen approaching the earth. At first it is only an object of interest to the general public, but there is an astronomer on the earth, who is watching each phase and making mathematical calculations, for he knows the intimate relation of gravitation between bodies and the effect on rotating bodies of the same force from an outside source. He fears all sorts of wreckage on our earth. He warns the people, but they, as usual, discount all he says and label him mad. But he was not mad. H. G. Wells, in his own way, gives us a picturesque description of the approach of the new body...

## Chapters

- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-star-67071/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-star-67071/chapters/2/index.md)