Add this copy of Star Begotten to cart. $4.93, good condition, Sold by Goldstone Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Ammanford, CARMS, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1977 by Sphere.
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Add this copy of Star-Begotten to cart. $14.97, fair condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Reno rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Reno, NV, UNITED STATES, published by Leisure Books.
Add this copy of Star Begotten: a Biological Fantasia to cart. $15.48, like new condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Dallas rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Dallas, TX, UNITED STATES, published 2006 by Wesleyan University Press.
Add this copy of Star Begotten: a Biological Fantasia to cart. $15.48, very good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Dallas rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Dallas, TX, UNITED STATES, published 2006 by Wesleyan University Press.
Add this copy of Star-Begotten to cart. $26.49, very good condition, Sold by Wonder Book - Member ABAA/ILAB rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Frederick, MD, UNITED STATES.
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Very Good. Very Good condition. (Science Fiction) A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included. NOT AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES.
Add this copy of Star Begotten. a Biological Fantasia to cart. $157.00, very good condition, Sold by Quercus Rare Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Chico, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1937 by Chatto & Windus.
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Very Good (Minus) in Very Good (Minus) jacket. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Wells reconsidered Mars and Martians in this speculative novel with "...a fantastic idea, quite fantastic, but neither impossible nor incredible" (from publisher). This is a Very Good (Minus) copy of the First Edition. Black cloth binding with white titling on the spine. Clean text; 199 pages. A solid copy, but with these issues: a faint bookstore stamp on the front paste-down; PO label on the FFEP; otherwise unmarked; corners not bumped, but there is a bump to the top of the front cover. The wonderful dustwrapper is complete, but has been clipped. There is some edgewear and chips to the head of the spine and front upper cover. There is a tear across the spine that continues up the rear panel. In an archival plastic protector.
Add this copy of Star-Begotten: a Biological Fantasia [First Edition] to cart. $157.00, very good condition, Sold by bibliophonics rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Rapid River, MI, UNITED STATES, published 1937 by The Viking Press.
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Very Good. Book. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Stated at copyright: "First Published June 1937". 1937 date at title and copyright pages. Rust brown full cloth boards, stylized gilt cover and spine titles on black block fields, moderate shelf wear, rub. Pages generally very good; toning at endpapers. Antiquarian name signed twice at front endpaper: "Iva Emory, 725 N. Collett St., Danville, Ill." Dedication page states: "To My Friend, Winston Spencer Churchill". Bind fine; hinges intact. Near very good first edition of this intriguing title. Chapter titles: "The Mind of Mr. Joseph Davis Is Greatly Troubled; Mr. Joseph Davis Learns about Cosmic Rays; Mr. Joseph Davis Wrestles with an Incredible Idea; Dr. Holdman Stedding Is Infected with the Idea; Professor Ernest Keppel Takes Up the Idea in His Own Peculiar Fashion; Opening Phases of the Great Eugenic Research; The World Begins to Hear about the Martians; How These Star-Begotten People May Presently Get Together; Professor Keppel Is Inspired to Foretell the End of Humanity; and, Mr. Joseph Davis Tears Up a Manuscript." Star Begotten tells a story of the human race being altered through genetic modification by Martians to replace their dying planet. Wells re-addresses the existence of Martians, which he had written about in The War of the Worlds (1898). The dialogue of Star Begotten makes brief references to Wells's earlier novel, referring to it as having been written by "Jules Verne, Conan Doyle, one of those fellows" Excerpt: "The idea was born, so to speak, one morning in November at the Planetarium Club, Yet perhaps before we describe its impact upon Mr. Joseph Davis in the club smoking-room after lunch, it may be well to tell the reader a few things about him. We will begin right at the beginning. He was born just at the turn of the century and about the vernal equinox. He had come into the world with a lively and precocious intelligence and his 'quickness' had been the joy of his mother and his nurses. And, after the manner of our kind, he had clutched at the world, squinted at it, and then looked straight at it, got hold of things and put them in his mouth, begun to imitate, begun to make and then interpret sounds, and so developed his picture of this strange world in which we live. His nurse told him things and sang to him; his mother sang to him and told him things; a nursery governess arrived in due course to tell him things, and then a governess and a school and lot of people and pictures and little books in words of one syllable and then normal polysyllabic books and a large mellifluous parson and various husky small boys and indeed a great miscellany of people went on telling him things and telling him things. And so continually, his picture of this world, and his conception of himself and what he would have to do, and ought to do and wanted to do, grew clearer." Herbert George Wells, better known as H. G. Wells, was an English writer best known for science fiction novels such as The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man and The Island of Doctor Moreau. He was prolific in fiction and non-fiction, and conceived works in many genres. Printed in U. S. A. by the Haddon Craftsmen. 217 pages. Insured post.
Add this copy of Star Begotten: a Biological Fantasia to cart. $182.00, very good condition, Sold by Zephyr Used & Rare Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Vancouver, WA, UNITED STATES, published 1937 by Chatto & Windus.
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8vo. [8]. 198, [2] pp. Black publisher's cloth, gilt lettering on spine (very minor foxing at fore-edges of textblock), w/ d.j. striking Art Deco cover art (ever so slight sunning to spine, minor dustsoiling, slight edgewear), still a NF/F copy. First edition, first issue (printed price, no price label), of this science fiction speculation on whether human beings on Earth could be genetically altered to repopulate the dying Martians.
Add this copy of Star Begotten to cart. $24.50, like new condition, Sold by Always Superior Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Marietta, GA, UNITED STATES, published 1970 by Leisure.
This could have been an interesting novel about cosmic rays from Mars affecting human behavior. Instead, it is a dull novel about three men talking about cosmic rays from Mars affecting human behavior.
That's right. Nothing ever really happens in the book; the characters only talk about it. And in the process, Mr. Wells presents his oft-repeated views of socialism couched in science-fiction. Only here, he unintentionally proves the folly of his own doctrines.
He upbraids mankind for following the crowd instead of thinking for themselves. Then he describes his version of an earthly paradise in which everyone will think exactly alike, and any who don't will be removed, even if it means murder, which Wells' character condones.
He ridicules the religious man's belief in sin, then goes on to lambaste all the actions he personally believes to be evil.
He promotes a new world order, while admitting that nothing less than an outside force acting upon humanity can make such a change possible.
Thus, while attempting to stamp out Christianity and replace it with the god of socialism, Wells only succeeds in proving the case for Christianity: that man without God is helpless to do right.
Perhaps the book is worth reading as a proof against Mr. Wells and his doctrines, but it's pretty dull stuff all the same.
