Star Begotten: H.G. Wells

[poliphilo]

A man wonders whether his "fey" wife could be an alien. Instead of having it out with her he consults a couple of not very interesting old men and the story peters out in Utopian speculation.

A book that justifies G.K. Chesterton's gag that Wells was "a born story-teller who sold his birthright for a pot of message". 

Comments

[michaleen.livejournal.com]

Clever and echoes Mencken's observation that Wells was one of the greatest novelists of his age until evangelism got the better of him.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

By the end of his career Wells was bored with fiction. Here he's simply going through the motions. It's the ideas that interest him.

[chochiyo-sama.livejournal.com]

When I was a child, I often wondered whether *I* might be an alien. I don't know where I got that idea. Perhaps it was wishful thinking. LOL...I do know that I always feared that they might come to take me back, and I didn't want to go. LOL

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I met a woman once who said she was an alien- and in touch with others of her kind who had wound up on planet Earth. If you believe in reincarnation (as I do) there's no reason why souls shouldn't hop around from planet to planet.