Star Begotten E-Book

Herbert George Wells

• Herausgeber: Ktoczyta.pl
• Kategorie: Fantasy und Science-Fiction
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

Beschreibung

The story centers on Joseph Davis, a popular writer of romanticized histories, who comes to believe that some people differ fundamentally from most of us. They are more rational, possibly more talented and intelligent. His wife has increasingly become a stranger, the imminent birth of his first child has left him in a panicked state, and his rosy-tinted histories have lately begun to strike him as so much bosh. And then he overhears a conversation at his Planetarium Club, in which several of the learned members discuss the possibility of mankind’s increasing intelligence being the result of the cosmic rays that are constantly bombarding us. That is what Davis and two of his cronies, obstetrician Holdman Stedding and philosophy professor Ernest Keppel, endeavor to riddle out, in this thoroughly engaging and passionate piece of work.

Leseprobe

Contents

I. THE MIND OF MR. JOSEPH DAVIS IS GREATLY TROUBLED

II. MR. JOSEPH DAVIS LEARNS ABOUT COSMIC RAYS

III. MR. JOSEPH DAVIS WRESTLES WITH AN INCREDIBLE IDEA

IV. DR. HOLDMAN STEDDING IS INFECTED WITH THE IDEA

V. PROFESSOR ERNEST KEPPEL TAKES UP THE IDEA IN HIS OWN PECULIAR FASHION

VI. OPENING PHASES OF THE GREAT EUGENIC RESEARCH

VII. THE WORLD BEGINS TO HEAR ABOUT THE MARTIANS

VIII. HOW THESE STAR-BEGOTTEN PEOPLE MAY PRESENTLY GET TOGETHER

IX. PROFESSOR KEPPEL IS INSPIRED TO FORETELL THE END OF HUMANITY

X. MR. JOSEPH DAVIS TEARS UP A MANUSCRIPT