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If you are not located in the United States, you -will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before -using this eBook. - -Title: The Star - -Author: H. G. Wells - -Release Date: January 5, 2022 [eBook #67071] - -Language: English - -Produced by: Roger Frank and Sue Clark - -*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE STAR *** - - - - - -[Illustration: Above were the lava, hot gases and ash, and below the -seething floods and the whole earth swayed and rumbled with the -earthquake.] - - - 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 through long days and nights—he tells how the earth and - natural phenomena of the earth will react. Though this star - never touches our sphere, the devastation and destruction - wrought by it are complete and horrible. The story is correct in - its astronomical aspects. - - - - -THE STAR - -By H. G. Wells - -Author of “The War of the Worlds”, “The Time Machine”, Etc. - - -It was on the first day of the new year that the announcement was -made, almost simultaneously from three observatories, that the -motion of the planet Neptune, the outermost of all the planets that -wheeled about the sun, had become erratic. Ogilvy had already called -attention to a suspected retardation in its velocity in December. -Such a piece of news was scarcely calculated to interest the world -the greater portion of whose inhabitants were unaware of the -existence of the planet Neptune, nor outside the astronomical -profession did the subsequent discovery of a faint remote speck of -light in the region of the perturbed planet cause any great -excitement. - -Scientific people, however, found the intelligence remarkable -enough, even before it became known that the new body was rapidly -growing larger and brighter, that its motion was quite different -from the orderly progress of the planets, and that the deflection of -Neptune and its satellite was becoming now of an unprecedented kind. - -Few people without training in science can realize the huge -isolation of the solar system. The sun with its specks of planets, -its dust of planetoids, and its impalpable comets swims in vacant -immensity that almost defeats the imagination. Beyond the orbit of -Neptune there is space, vacant so far as human observation has -penetrated, without warmth or light or sound, blank emptiness, for -twenty billion times a million miles. That is the smallest estimate -of the distance to be traversed before the nearest of the stars is -attained. And, saving a few comets, more unsubstantial than the -thinnest flame, no matter had ever to human knowledge crossed the -gulf of space, until early in the twentieth century this wanderer -appeared. - -A vast mass of matter it was, bulky, heavy, rushing without warning -out of the black mystery of the sky into the radiance of the sun. By -the second day it was clearly visible to any decent instrument, as a -speck with a barely sensible diameter, in the constellation Leo near -Regulus. In a little while an opera glass could attain it. - -On the third day of the new year the newspaper readers of two -hemispheres were made aware for the first time of the real -importance of this unusual apparition in the heavens. “A Planetary -Collision,” one London paper headed the news, and proclaimed -Duchine’s opinion that this strange new planet would probably -collide with Neptune. The leader writers enlarged upon the topic. So -that in most of the capitals of the world, on Jan. 3, there was an -expectation, however vague, of some eminent phenomenon in the sky; -and as the night followed the sunset round the globe thousands of -men turned their eyes skyward to see—the old familiar stars just as -they had always been. - -Until it was dawn in London and Pollux setting, and the stars -overhead grown pale. The winter’s dawn it was, a sickly filtering -accumulation of daylight, and the light of gas and candles shone -yellow in the windows to show where people were astir. But the -yawning policeman saw the thing, the busy crowds in the market -stopped agape, workmen going to their work betimes, milkmen, the -drivers of news carts, dissipation going home jaded and pale, -homeless wanderers, sentinels on their beats, and in the country, -laborers trudging afield, poachers slinking home, all over the dusky -quickening country it would be seen—and out at sea by seamen -watching for the day—a great white star, come suddenly into the -westward sky! - -Brighter it was than any star in our skies; brighter than the -evening star at its brightest. It still glowed out white and large, -no mere twinkling spot of light but a small round clear shining -disk, an hour after the day had come. And where science has not -reached, men stared and feared, telling one another of the wars and -pestilences that are foreshadowed by these fiery signs in the -heavens. Sturdy Boers, dusky Hottentots, Gold Coast negroes, -Frenchmen, Spaniards, Portuguese, stood in the glow of the sunrise -watching the setting of this strange new star. - -And in a hundred observatories there had been suppressed excitement, -rising almost to shouting pitch, as the two remote bodies had rushed -together. There had been a hurrying to and fro to gather -photographic apparatus and spectroscope; to gather this appliance -and that, to record the novel astonishing sight, the destruction of -a world,—for it was a world, a sister planet of our earth, far -greater than our earth indeed, that had so suddenly flashed into -flaming death. Neptune it was, which had been struck, fairly, and -squarely, by the planet from outer space and the heat of concussion -had incontinently turned two solid globes into one vast mass of -incandescence. - -Round the world that day, two hours before the dawn, went the pallid -great white star, fading only as it sank westward and the sun -mounted above it. Everywhere man marveled at it, but of all those -who saw it none could have marveled more than those sailors, -habitual watchers of the stars, who far away at sea had heard -nothing of its advent and saw it now rise like a pigmy moon and -climb zenithward and hang overhead and sink westward with the -passing of the night. - -And when next it rose over Europe everywhere were crowds of watchers -on hilly slopes, on house roofs, in open spaces, staring eastward, -waiting for the rising of the new star. It rose with a white glow in -front, like the glare of a white fire, and those who had seen it -come into existence the night before cried out at the sight of it. -“It is larger,” they cried. “It is brighter!” And, indeed, the moon -a quarter full and sinking in the west was in its apparent size -beyond comparison, but scarcely in all its breadth had it as much -brightness now as the little circle of the strange new star. - -“It is brighter!” cried the people clustering in the streets. But in -the dim observatories the watchers held their breath and peered at -one another. “It is nearer,” they said. “Nearer!” - -And voice after voice repeated. “It is nearer,” and the clicking -telegraph took that up, and it trembled along telephone wires, and -in a thousand cities grimy compositors fingered the type. “It is -nearer.” Men writing in offices, struck with strange realization, -flung down their pens, men talking in a thousand places suddenly -came upon a grotesque possibility in those words, “It is nearer.” It -hurried along awakening streets, it was shouted down the -frost-stilled ways of quiet villages, men who had read these things, -from the throbbing tape stood in yellow-lit doorways shouting the -news to the passers-by. “It is nearer.” Pretty women flushed and -glittering, heard the news told jestingly between dances, and -feigned an intelligent interest they did not feel. “Nearer! Indeed. -How curious! How clever people must be to find out things like -that!” - -Lonely tramps faring through the wintry night murmured those words -to comfort themselves—looking skyward. “It has need to be nearer, -for the night’s as cold as charity. Don’t seem much warmth from it -if it is nearer, all the same.” - -“What is a new star to me?” cried the weeping woman kneeling beside -her dead. - -The schoolboy, rising early for his examination work, puzzled it out -for himself—with the great white star shining broad and bright -through the frost-flowers of his window. “Centrifugal, centripetal,” -he said, with his chin on his fist. “Stop a planet in its flight, -rob it of its centrifugal force, what then? Centripetal has it, and -down it falls into the sun! And this——!” - -“Do we come in the way? I wonder——” - -The light of that day went the way of its brethren, and with the -later watches of the frosty darkness rose the strange star again, -And it was now so bright that the waxing moon seemed but a pale -yellow ghost of itself, rising huge in the sunset hour. In a South -African city a great man had married, and the streets were alight to -welcome his return with his bride. “Even the skies have -illuminated,” said the flatterer. Under Capricorn, two negro lovers, -daring the wild beasts and evil spirits, for love of one another, -crouched together in a cane brake where the fireflies hovered. “That -is our star,” they whispered, and felt strangely comforted by the -sweet brilliancy of its light. - -The master mathematician sat in his private room and pushed the -papers from him. His calculations were already finished. In a small -white phial there still remained a little of the drug that had kept -him awake and active for four long nights. Each day, serene, -explicit, patient as ever, he had given his lecture to his students, -and then had come back at once to his momentous calculation. His -face was grave, a little drawn, and hectic from his drugged -activity. For some time he seemed lost in thought. Then he went to -the window, and the blind went up with a click. Half way up the sky, -over the clustering roofs, chimneys, and steeples of the city, hung -the star. - -He looked at it as one might look into the eye of a brave enemy. -“You may kill me,” he said after a silence, “But I can hold you—and -all the universe for that matter—in the grip of this little brain. I -would not change even now.” - -He looked at the little phial. “There will be no need of sleep -again,” he said. The next day at noon, punctual to the minute, he -entered his lecture theater, put his hat on the end of the table as -his habit was, and carefully selected a large piece of chalk. It was -a joke among his students that he could not lecture without that -piece of chalk to fumble in his fingers, and once he had been -stricken to impotence by their hiding his supply. He came and looked -under his gray eyebrows at the rising tiers of young fresh faces, -and spoke with his accustomed studied commonness of phrasing, -“Circumstances have arisen—circumstances beyond my control,” he said -and paused, “which will debar me from completing the course I had -designed. It would seem, gentlemen, if I may put the thing clearly -and briefly, that—man has lived in vain.” - -The students glanced at one another. Had they heard aright? Mad? -Raised eyebrows and grinning lips there were, but one or two faces -remained intent upon his calm gray-fringed face. “It will be -interesting,” he was saying, “to devote this morning to an -exposition, so far as I can make it clear to you, of the -calculations that have led me to this conclusion. Let us assume——” - -He turned toward the blackboard, meditating a diagram in the way -that was usual to him. “What was that about ‘lived in vain’?” -whispered one student to another. “Listen,” said the other, nodding -toward the lecturer. - -And presently they began to understand. - -That night the star rose later, for its proper eastward motion had -carried it some way across Leo toward Virgo, and its brightness was -so great that the sky became a luminous blue as it rose, and every -star and planet was hidden, save only Jupiter near the zenith, -Capella, Aldebaran, Sirius, and the pointers of the Bear. It was -white and beautiful. In many parts of the world that night a pallid -halo encircled it about. It was perceptibly larger; in the clear -refractive sky of the tropics it seemed as if it were nearly a -quarter of the size of the moon. The frost was still on the ground -in England, but the world was as brightly lit as if it were -midsummer moonlight. One could see to read quite ordinary print by -that cold clear light, and in the cities the lamps burnt yellow and -wan. - -And everywhere the world was awake that night, and throughout -Christendom a somber murmur hung in the keen air over the -countryside like the buzzing of the bees in the heather, and this -murmurous tumult grew to a clangor in the cities. It was the tolling -of the bells in a million belfry towers and steeples, summoning the -people to sleep no more, to sin no more, but to gather in their -churches and pray. And overhead, growing larger and brighter, as the -earth rolled on its way and the night passed, rose the dazzling -star. - -And the streets and houses were alight in all the cities, the -shipyards glared, and whatever roads led to high country were lit -and crowded all night long. And in all the seas about the civilized -lands ships with throbbing engines, and ships with bellying sails, -crowded with men and living creatures, were standing out to ocean -and the north. For already the warning of the master mathematician -had been telegraphed over the world, and translated into a hundred -tongues. The new planet and Neptune, locked in a fiery embrace, were -whirling headlong, ever faster and faster, toward the sun. Already -every second this blazing mass flew a hundred miles, and every -second its terrific velocity increased. As it flew its course, it -must pass a hundred million of miles wide of the earth and scarcely -affect it. - -But near its destined path, as yet only slightly perturbed, spun the -mighty planet Jupiter and his moons sweeping splendid around the -sun. Every moment now the attraction between the fiery star and the -greatest of the planets grew stronger. And the result of that -attraction? Inevitably Jupiter, would be deflected from its orbit to -a new elliptical path, and the burning star, swung by his attraction -wide of its sunward rush, would “describe a curved path” and perhaps -collide with and certainly pass close to, our earth. “Earthquakes, -volcanic outbreaks, cyclones, sea waves, floods, and a steady rise -in temperature to I know not what limit”—so prophesied the master -mathematician. - -And overhead, to carry out his words, lonely and cold and livid, -blazed the star of the coming doom. - -To many who stared at it that night until their eyes ached, it -seemed that it was visibly approaching. And that night, too, the -weather changed, and the frost that had gripped all Central Europe -and France and England softened towards a thaw. - -But you must not imagine because I have spoken of people praying -through the night and people going aboard ships and people fleeing -towards mountainous country that the whole world was already in a -terror because of the star. As a matter of fact, use and wont still -ruled the world, and save for the talk of idle moments and the -splendor of the night, nine human beings out of ten were still busy -at their common occupations. In all the cities the shops, save one -here and there, opened and closed at their proper hours, the doctor -and the undertaker plied their trades, and workers gathered in the -factories, soldiers drilled, scholars studied, lovers sought one -another, thieves lurked and fled, politicians planned their schemes. -The presses of the newspapers roared through the nights, and many a -priest of this church and that would not open his holy building to -further what he considered a foolish panic. - -The newspapers insisted on the lesson of the year 1000—for then, -too, people had anticipated the end. The star was no star—mere gas—a -comet; and were it a star it could not possibly strike the earth. -There was no precedent for such a thing. Common sense was sturdy -everywhere, scornful, jesting, a little inclined to persecute the -obdurate fearful. That night at 7:15 by Greenwich time the star -would be at its nearest to Jupiter. Then the world would see the -turn things would take. The master mathematician’s grim warnings -were treated by many as so much mere elaborate self-advertisement. -Common sense at last, a little heated by argument, signified its -unalterable convictions by going to bed. So, too, barbarism and -savagery, already tired of the novelty, went about their nightly -business: and save for a howling dog here and there the beast-world -left the star unheeded. - -And yet, when at last the watchers in the European states saw their -star rise, an hour later, it is true, but no larger than it had been -the night before, there were still plenty awake to laugh at the -master mathematician—to take the danger as if it had passed. - -But hereafter the laughter ceased. The star grew—it grew with a -terrible steadiness hour after hour, a little larger each hour, a -little nearer the midnight zenith, and brighter and brighter, until -it had turned night into day. Had it come straight to the earth -instead of in a curved path, had it lost no velocity to Jupiter, it -must have leapt the intervening gulf in a day; but as it was it took -five days altogether to come by our planet. The next night it had -become a third the size of the moon before it set to English eyes, -and the thaw was assured. - -It rose over America nearly the size of the moon, but blinding white -to look at, and hot; and a breath of hot wind blew now with its -rising and gathering strength, and in Virginia and Brazil and down -the St. Lawrence valley it shone intermittently through a driving -reek of thunder clouds, flickering violet lightning, and hail -unprecedented. In Manitoba were a thaw and devastating floods. And -upon the mountains of the earth the snow and ice began to melt that -night, and all the rivers coming out of high country flowed thick -and turbid, and soon—in their upper reaches— with swirling trees and -the bodies of beasts and men. They rose steadily, steadily in the -ghostly brilliance, and came trickling over their banks at last, -behind the flying population of their valleys. - -And along the coast of Argentina and up the South Atlantic tides -were higher than they had ever been in the memory of man, and the -storms drove the waters in many cases scores of miles inland, -drowning whole cities. And so great grew the heat during the night -that the rising of the sun was like the coming of a shadow. The -earthquakes began and grew until all down America from the Arctic -Circle to Cape Horn hillsides were sliding, fissures were opening, -and houses and walls crumbling to destruction. - -China was lit glowing white, but over Japan and Java and all the -islands of eastern Asia the great star was a ball of dull red fire -because of the steam and smoke and ashes the volcanoes were spouting -forth to salute its coming. Above were the lava, hot gases, and ash, -and below the seething floods, and the whole earth swayed and -rumbled with the earthquake shocks. Soon the immemorial snows of -Tibet and the Himalayas were melting and pouring down by ten million -deepening converging channels upon the plains of Burma and -Hindustan. The tangled summits of the Indian jungles were aflame in -a thousand places, and below the hurrying waters around the stems -were dark objects that struggled feebly and reflected the blood red -tongues of fire. And in a ungovernable confusion a multitude of men -and women fled down the broad riverways to that one last hope of -men—the open sea. - -Larger grew the star, and larger, hotter, and brighter with a -terrible swiftness now. The tropical ocean had lost its -phosphorescence, and the whirling steam rose in ghostly wreaths from -the black waves that plunged incessantly, speckled with storm-tossed -ships. - -And then came a wonder. It seemed to those who in Europe watched for -the rising of the star that the world must have ceased its rotation. -In a thousand open spaces of down and upland the people who had fled -thither from the floods and the falling houses and sliding slopes of -hill watched for that rising in vain. Hour followed hour through a -terrible suspense, and the star rose not. Once again men set their -eyes upon the old constellations they had counted lost to them -forever. In England it was hot and clear overhead, though the ground -quivered perpetually; but in the tropics Sirius and Capella and -Aldebaran showed through a veil of steam. And when at last the great -star rose, near ten hours late, the sun rose close upon it, and in -the center of its white heart was a disk of black. - -Over Asia the star had begun to fall behind the movement of the sky, -and then suddenly, as it hung over India, its light had been veiled. -All the plain of India from the mouth of the Indus to the mouths of -the Ganges was a shallow waste of shining water that night, out of -which rose temples and palaces, mounds and hills, black with people. -Every minaret was a clustering mass of people, who fell one by one -into the turbid waters as heat and terror overcame them. The whole -land seemed a-wailing, and suddenly there swept a shadow across that -furnace of despair, and a breath of cold wind, and a gathering of -clouds out of the cooling air. Men looking up, nearly blinded, at -the star, and saw that black disk creeping across the light. It was -the moon, coming between the star and the earth. And even as men -cried to God at this respite, out of the east with a strange, -inexplicable swiftness sprang the sun. And then star, sun, and moon -rushed together across the heavens. - -So it was that presently, to the European watchers, star and sun -rose close upon each other, drove headlong for a space, and then -slower, and at last came to rest, star and sun merged into one glare -of flame at the zenith of the sky. The moon no longer eclipsed the -star, but was lost to sight in the brilliance of the sky. And though -those who were still alive regarded it for the most part with that -dull stupidity that hunger, fatigue, heat, and despair engender, -there were still men who could perceive the meaning of these signs. -Star and earth had been at their nearest, had swung about one -another, and the star had passed. Already it was receding, swifter -and swifter, in the last stage of its headlong journey downward into -the sun. - -And then the clouds gathered, blotting out the vision of the sky; -the thunder and lightning wove a garment around the world; all over -the earth was such a downpour of rain as men had never seen before; -and where the volcanoes flared red against the cloud canopy there -descended torrents of mud. Everywhere the waters were pouring off -the land, leaving mud stilted ruins, and the earth littered like a -storm-worn beach with all that had floated, and the dead bodies of -the men and brutes, its children. - -For days the water streamed off the land, sweeping away soil and -trees and houses in the way and piling huge dikes and scooping out -titanic gullies over the countryside. Those were the days of -darkness that followed the star and the heat. All through them, and -for many weeks and months, the earthquakes continued. - -But the star had passed, and men, hunger-driven and gathering -courage only slowly, might creep back to their ruined cities, buried -granaries, and sodden fields. Such few ships as had escaped the -storms of that time came stunned and shattered and sounding their -way cautiously through the new marks and shoals of once familiar -ports. And as the storms subsided men perceived that everywhere the -days were hotter than of yore, and the sun larger, and the moon, -shrunk to a third of its size, took now fourscore days between its -new and new. - -But of the new brotherhood that grew presently among men, of the -saving of laws and machines, of the strange change that had Iceland -and Greenland the shores of Baffin’s Bay, so that the sailors coming -there presently found them green and gracious, and could scarce -believe their eyes, this story does not tell. Nor of the movement of -mankind, now that the earth was hotter, northward and southward -towards the poles of the earth. It concerns itself only with the -coming and the passing of the star. - -The Martian astronomers—for there are astronomers on Mars, although -they are different beings from men—were naturally profoundly -interested by these things. They saw them from their own standpoint, -of course. “Considering the mass and temperature of the missile that -was flung through our solar system into the sun,” one wrote, “it is -astonishing what little damage the earth, which it missed so -narrowly, has sustained. All the familiar continental markings and -the masses of the seas remain intact, and indeed the only difference -seems to be a shrinkage of the white discoloration (supposed to be -frozen water) round either pole.” Which only shows how small the -vastest of human catastrophies may seem at a distance of a few -million miles. - - -[Transcriber’s Note. This story appeared in the June, 1926 issue of -_Amazing Stories_ magazine. The introduction (“Here is an impressive -story....”) was added by the publisher.] - -*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE STAR *** - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will -be renamed. - -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, -so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the -United States without permission and without paying copyright -royalties. Special rules, set forth in the General Terms of Use part -of this license, apply to copying and distributing Project -Gutenberg-tm electronic works to protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm -concept and trademark. 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Wells</p> -<p style='display:block; text-indent:0; margin:1em 0'>Release Date: January 5, 2022 [eBook #67071]</p> -<p style='display:block; text-indent:0; margin:1em 0'>Language: English</p> - <p style='display:block; margin-top:1em; margin-bottom:0; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em; text-align:left'>Produced by: Roger Frank and Sue Clark</p> -<div style='margin-top:2em; margin-bottom:4em'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE STAR ***</div> - -<div class='figcenter landscape'> - <img src='images/illus-001.jpg' alt='' /> - <p style='font-size:0.9em;'> - Above were the lava, hot gases and ash, and below the - seething floods and the whole earth swayed and rumbled - with the earthquake. - </p> -</div> - -<blockquote style='margin-bottom:2em; font-size:0.8em;'> -<p>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 through long -days and nights—he tells how the earth and natural phenomena of the -earth will react. Though this star never touches our sphere, the -devastation and destruction wrought by it are complete and horrible. The -story is correct in its astronomical aspects.</p> -</blockquote> - -<h1>THE STAR</h1> -<div style="text-align:center; margin-bottom:2em;"> -By H. G. Wells<br /> -<span style='font-size:0.8em'>Author of “The War of the Worlds”, “The Time Machine”, Etc.</span> -</div> - -<p>It was on the first day of the new year that the announcement was -made, almost simultaneously from three observatories, that the motion of -the planet Neptune, the outermost of all the planets that wheeled about -the sun, had become erratic. Ogilvy had already called attention to a -suspected retardation in its velocity in December. Such a piece of news -was scarcely calculated to interest the world the greater portion of -whose inhabitants were unaware of the existence of the planet Neptune, -nor outside the astronomical profession did the subsequent discovery of -a faint remote speck of light in the region of the perturbed planet -cause any great excitement.</p> - -<p>Scientific people, however, found the intelligence remarkable enough, -even before it became known that the new body was rapidly growing larger -and brighter, that its motion was quite different from the orderly -progress of the planets, and that the deflection of Neptune and its -satellite was becoming now of an unprecedented kind.</p> - -<p>Few people without training in science can realize the huge isolation -of the solar system. The sun with its specks of planets, its dust of -planetoids, and its impalpable comets swims in vacant immensity that -almost defeats the imagination. Beyond the orbit of Neptune there is -space, vacant so far as human observation has penetrated, without warmth -or light or sound, blank emptiness, for twenty billion times a million -miles. That is the smallest estimate of the distance to be traversed -before the nearest of the stars is attained. And, saving a few comets, -more unsubstantial than the thinnest flame, no matter had ever to human -knowledge crossed the gulf of space, until early in the twentieth -century this wanderer appeared.</p> - -<p>A vast mass of matter it was, bulky, heavy, rushing without warning -out of the black mystery of the sky into the radiance of the sun. By the -second day it was clearly visible to any decent instrument, as a speck -with a barely sensible diameter, in the constellation Leo near Regulus. -In a little while an opera glass could attain it.</p> - -<p>On the third day of the new year the newspaper readers of two -hemispheres were made aware for the first time of the real importance of -this unusual apparition in the heavens. “A Planetary Collision,” one -London paper headed the news, and proclaimed Duchine’s opinion that this -strange new planet would probably collide with Neptune. The leader -writers enlarged upon the topic. So that in most of the capitals of the -world, on Jan. 3, there was an expectation, however vague, of some -eminent phenomenon in the sky; and as the night followed the sunset -round the globe thousands of men turned their eyes skyward to see—the -old familiar stars just as they had always been.</p> - -<p>Until it was dawn in London and Pollux setting, and the stars -overhead grown pale. The winter’s dawn it was, a sickly filtering -accumulation of daylight, and the light of gas and candles shone yellow -in the windows to show where people were astir. But the yawning -policeman saw the thing, the busy crowds in the market stopped agape, -workmen going to their work betimes, milkmen, the drivers of news carts, -dissipation going home jaded and pale, homeless wanderers, sentinels on -their beats, and in the country, laborers trudging afield, poachers -slinking home, all over the dusky quickening country it would be -seen—and out at sea by seamen watching for the day—a great white star, -come suddenly into the westward sky!</p> - -<p>Brighter it was than any star in our skies; brighter than the evening -star at its brightest. It still glowed out white and large, no mere -twinkling spot of light but a small round clear shining disk, an hour -after the day had come. And where science has not reached, men stared -and feared, telling one another of the wars and pestilences that are -foreshadowed by these fiery signs in the heavens. Sturdy Boers, dusky -Hottentots, Gold Coast negroes, Frenchmen, Spaniards, Portuguese, stood -in the glow of the sunrise watching the setting of this strange new -star.</p> - -<p>And in a hundred observatories there had been suppressed excitement, -rising almost to shouting pitch, as the two remote bodies had rushed -together. There had been a hurrying to and fro to gather photographic -apparatus and spectroscope; to gather this appliance and that, to record -the novel astonishing sight, the destruction of a world,—for it was a -world, a sister planet of our earth, far greater than our earth indeed, -that had so suddenly flashed into flaming death. Neptune it was, which -had been struck, fairly, and squarely, by the planet from outer space -and the heat of concussion had incontinently turned two solid globes -into one vast mass of incandescence.</p> - -<p>Round the world that day, two hours before the dawn, went the pallid -great white star, fading only as it sank westward and the sun mounted -above it. Everywhere man marveled at it, but of all those who saw it -none could have marveled more than those sailors, habitual watchers of -the stars, who far away at sea had heard nothing of its advent and saw -it now rise like a pigmy moon and climb zenithward and hang overhead and -sink westward with the passing of the night.</p> - -<p>And when next it rose over Europe everywhere were crowds of watchers -on hilly slopes, on house roofs, in open spaces, staring eastward, -waiting for the rising of the new star. It rose with a white glow in -front, like the glare of a white fire, and those who had seen it come -into existence the night before cried out at the sight of it. “It is -larger,” they cried. “It is brighter!” And, indeed, the moon a quarter -full and sinking in the west was in its apparent size beyond comparison, -but scarcely in all its breadth had it as much brightness now as the -little circle of the strange new star.</p> - -<p>“It is brighter!” cried the people clustering in the streets. But in -the dim observatories the watchers held their breath and peered at one -another. “It is nearer,” they said. “Nearer!”</p> - -<p>And voice after voice repeated. “It is nearer,” and the clicking -telegraph took that up, and it trembled along telephone wires, and in a -thousand cities grimy compositors fingered the type. “It is nearer.” Men -writing in offices, struck with strange realization, flung down their -pens, men talking in a thousand places suddenly came upon a grotesque -possibility in those words, “It is nearer.” It hurried along awakening -streets, it was shouted down the frost-stilled ways of quiet villages, -men who had read these things, from the throbbing tape stood in -yellow-lit doorways shouting the news to the passers-by. “It is nearer.” -Pretty women flushed and glittering, heard the news told jestingly -between dances, and feigned an intelligent interest they did not feel. -“Nearer! Indeed. How curious! How clever people must be to find out -things like that!”</p> - -<p>Lonely tramps faring through the wintry night murmured those words to -comfort themselves—looking skyward. “It has need to be nearer, for the -night’s as cold as charity. Don’t seem much warmth from it if it is -nearer, all the same.”</p> - -<p>“What is a new star to me?” cried the weeping woman kneeling beside -her dead.</p> - -<p>The schoolboy, rising early for his examination work, puzzled it out -for himself—with the great white star shining broad and bright through -the frost-flowers of his window. “Centrifugal, centripetal,” he said, -with his chin on his fist. “Stop a planet in its flight, rob it of its -centrifugal force, what then? Centripetal has it, and down it falls into -the sun! And this——!”</p> - -<p>“Do we come in the way? I wonder——”</p> - -<p>The light of that day went the way of its brethren, and with the -later watches of the frosty darkness rose the strange star again, And it -was now so bright that the waxing moon seemed but a pale yellow ghost of -itself, rising huge in the sunset hour. In a South African city a great -man had married, and the streets were alight to welcome his return with -his bride. “Even the skies have illuminated,” said the flatterer. Under -Capricorn, two negro lovers, daring the wild beasts and evil spirits, -for love of one another, crouched together in a cane brake where the -fireflies hovered. “That is our star,” they whispered, and felt -strangely comforted by the sweet brilliancy of its light.</p> - -<p>The master mathematician sat in his private room and pushed the -papers from him. His calculations were already finished. In a small -white phial there still remained a little of the drug that had kept him -awake and active for four long nights. Each day, serene, explicit, -patient as ever, he had given his lecture to his students, and then had -come back at once to his momentous calculation. His face was grave, a -little drawn, and hectic from his drugged activity. For some time he -seemed lost in thought. Then he went to the window, and the blind went -up with a click. Half way up the sky, over the clustering roofs, -chimneys, and steeples of the city, hung the star.</p> - -<p>He looked at it as one might look into the eye of a brave enemy. “You -may kill me,” he said after a silence, “But I can hold you—and all the -universe for that matter—in the grip of this little brain. I would not -change even now.”</p> - -<p>He looked at the little phial. “There will be no need of sleep -again,” he said. The next day at noon, punctual to the minute, he -entered his lecture theater, put his hat on the end of the table as his -habit was, and carefully selected a large piece of chalk. It was a joke -among his students that he could not lecture without that piece of chalk -to fumble in his fingers, and once he had been stricken to impotence by -their hiding his supply. He came and looked under his gray eyebrows at -the rising tiers of young fresh faces, and spoke with his accustomed -studied commonness of phrasing, “Circumstances have arisen—circumstances -beyond my control,” he said and paused, “which will debar me from -completing the course I had designed. It would seem, gentlemen, if I may -put the thing clearly and briefly, that—man has lived in vain.”</p> - -<p>The students glanced at one another. Had they heard aright? Mad? -Raised eyebrows and grinning lips there were, but one or two faces -remained intent upon his calm gray-fringed face. “It will be -interesting,” he was saying, “to devote this morning to an exposition, -so far as I can make it clear to you, of the calculations that have led -me to this conclusion. Let us assume——”</p> - -<p>He turned toward the blackboard, meditating a diagram in the way that -was usual to him. “What was that about ‘lived in vain’?” whispered one -student to another. “Listen,” said the other, nodding toward the -lecturer.</p> - -<p>And presently they began to understand.</p> - -<p>That night the star rose later, for its proper eastward motion had -carried it some way across Leo toward Virgo, and its brightness was so -great that the sky became a luminous blue as it rose, and every star and -planet was hidden, save only Jupiter near the zenith, Capella, -Aldebaran, Sirius, and the pointers of the Bear. It was white and -beautiful. In many parts of the world that night a pallid halo encircled -it about. It was perceptibly larger; in the clear refractive sky of the -tropics it seemed as if it were nearly a quarter of the size of the -moon. The frost was still on the ground in England, but the world was as -brightly lit as if it were midsummer moonlight. One could see to read -quite ordinary print by that cold clear light, and in the cities the -lamps burnt yellow and wan.</p> - -<p>And everywhere the world was awake that night, and throughout -Christendom a somber murmur hung in the keen air over the countryside -like the buzzing of the bees in the heather, and this murmurous tumult -grew to a clangor in the cities. It was the tolling of the bells in a -million belfry towers and steeples, summoning the people to sleep no -more, to sin no more, but to gather in their churches and pray. And -overhead, growing larger and brighter, as the earth rolled on its way -and the night passed, rose the dazzling star.</p> - -<p>And the streets and houses were alight in all the cities, the -shipyards glared, and whatever roads led to high country were lit and -crowded all night long. And in all the seas about the civilized lands -ships with throbbing engines, and ships with bellying sails, crowded -with men and living creatures, were standing out to ocean and the north. -For already the warning of the master mathematician had been telegraphed -over the world, and translated into a hundred tongues. The new planet -and Neptune, locked in a fiery embrace, were whirling headlong, ever -faster and faster, toward the sun. Already every second this blazing -mass flew a hundred miles, and every second its terrific velocity -increased. As it flew its course, it must pass a hundred million of -miles wide of the earth and scarcely affect it.</p> - -<p>But near its destined path, as yet only slightly perturbed, spun the -mighty planet Jupiter and his moons sweeping splendid around the sun. -Every moment now the attraction between the fiery star and the greatest -of the planets grew stronger. And the result of that attraction? -Inevitably Jupiter, would be deflected from its orbit to a new -elliptical path, and the burning star, swung by his attraction wide of -its sunward rush, would “describe a curved path” and perhaps collide -with and certainly pass close to, our earth. “Earthquakes, volcanic -outbreaks, cyclones, sea waves, floods, and a steady rise in temperature -to I know not what limit”—so prophesied the master mathematician.</p> - -<p>And overhead, to carry out his words, lonely and cold and livid, -blazed the star of the coming doom.</p> - -<p>To many who stared at it that night until their eyes ached, it seemed -that it was visibly approaching. And that night, too, the weather -changed, and the frost that had gripped all Central Europe and France -and England softened towards a thaw.</p> - -<p>But you must not imagine because I have spoken of people praying -through the night and people going aboard ships and people fleeing -towards mountainous country that the whole world was already in a terror -because of the star. As a matter of fact, use and wont still ruled the -world, and save for the talk of idle moments and the splendor of the -night, nine human beings out of ten were still busy at their common -occupations. In all the cities the shops, save one here and there, -opened and closed at their proper hours, the doctor and the undertaker -plied their trades, and workers gathered in the factories, soldiers -drilled, scholars studied, lovers sought one another, thieves lurked and -fled, politicians planned their schemes. The presses of the newspapers -roared through the nights, and many a priest of this church and that -would not open his holy building to further what he considered a foolish -panic.</p> - -<p>The newspapers insisted on the lesson of the year 1000—for then, too, -people had anticipated the end. The star was no star—mere gas—a comet; -and were it a star it could not possibly strike the earth. There was no -precedent for such a thing. Common sense was sturdy everywhere, -scornful, jesting, a little inclined to persecute the obdurate fearful. -That night at 7:15 by Greenwich time the star would be at its nearest to -Jupiter. Then the world would see the turn things would take. The master -mathematician’s grim warnings were treated by many as so much mere -elaborate self-advertisement. Common sense at last, a little heated by -argument, signified its unalterable convictions by going to bed. So, -too, barbarism and savagery, already tired of the novelty, went about -their nightly business: and save for a howling dog here and there the -beast-world left the star unheeded.</p> - -<p>And yet, when at last the watchers in the European states saw their -star rise, an hour later, it is true, but no larger than it had been the -night before, there were still plenty awake to laugh at the master -mathematician—to take the danger as if it had passed.</p> - -<p>But hereafter the laughter ceased. The star grew—it grew with a -terrible steadiness hour after hour, a little larger each hour, a little -nearer the midnight zenith, and brighter and brighter, until it had -turned night into day. Had it come straight to the earth instead of in a -curved path, had it lost no velocity to Jupiter, it must have leapt the -intervening gulf in a day; but as it was it took five days altogether to -come by our planet. The next night it had become a third the size of the -moon before it set to English eyes, and the thaw was assured.</p> - -<p>It rose over America nearly the size of the moon, but blinding white -to look at, and hot; and a breath of hot wind blew now with its rising -and gathering strength, and in Virginia and Brazil and down the St. -Lawrence valley it shone intermittently through a driving reek of -thunder clouds, flickering violet lightning, and hail unprecedented. -In Manitoba were a thaw and devastating floods. And upon the mountains -of the earth the snow and ice began to melt that night, and all the -rivers coming out of high country flowed thick and turbid, and soon—in -their upper reaches— with swirling trees and the bodies of beasts and -men. They rose steadily, steadily in the ghostly brilliance, and came -trickling over their banks at last, behind the flying population of -their valleys.</p> - -<p>And along the coast of Argentina and up the South Atlantic tides were -higher than they had ever been in the memory of man, and the storms -drove the waters in many cases scores of miles inland, drowning whole -cities. And so great grew the heat during the night that the rising of -the sun was like the coming of a shadow. The earthquakes began and grew -until all down America from the Arctic Circle to Cape Horn hillsides -were sliding, fissures were opening, and houses and walls crumbling to -destruction.</p> - -<p>China was lit glowing white, but over Japan and Java and all the -islands of eastern Asia the great star was a ball of dull red fire -because of the steam and smoke and ashes the volcanoes were spouting -forth to salute its coming. Above were the lava, hot gases, and ash, and -below the seething floods, and the whole earth swayed and rumbled with -the earthquake shocks. Soon the immemorial snows of Tibet and the -Himalayas were melting and pouring down by ten million deepening -converging channels upon the plains of Burma and Hindustan. The tangled -summits of the Indian jungles were aflame in a thousand places, and -below the hurrying waters around the stems were dark objects that -struggled feebly and reflected the blood red tongues of fire. And in a -ungovernable confusion a multitude of men and women fled down the broad -riverways to that one last hope of men—the open sea.</p> - -<p>Larger grew the star, and larger, hotter, and brighter with a -terrible swiftness now. The tropical ocean had lost its phosphorescence, -and the whirling steam rose in ghostly wreaths from the black waves that -plunged incessantly, speckled with storm-tossed ships.</p> - -<p>And then came a wonder. It seemed to those who in Europe watched for -the rising of the star that the world must have ceased its rotation. In -a thousand open spaces of down and upland the people who had fled -thither from the floods and the falling houses and sliding slopes of -hill watched for that rising in vain. Hour followed hour through a -terrible suspense, and the star rose not. Once again men set their eyes -upon the old constellations they had counted lost to them forever. In -England it was hot and clear overhead, though the ground quivered -perpetually; but in the tropics Sirius and Capella and Aldebaran showed -through a veil of steam. And when at last the great star rose, near ten -hours late, the sun rose close upon it, and in the center of its white -heart was a disk of black.</p> - -<p>Over Asia the star had begun to fall behind the movement of the sky, -and then suddenly, as it hung over India, its light had been veiled. All -the plain of India from the mouth of the Indus to the mouths of the -Ganges was a shallow waste of shining water that night, out of which -rose temples and palaces, mounds and hills, black with people. Every -minaret was a clustering mass of people, who fell one by one into the -turbid waters as heat and terror overcame them. The whole land seemed -a-wailing, and suddenly there swept a shadow across that furnace of -despair, and a breath of cold wind, and a gathering of clouds out of the -cooling air. Men looking up, nearly blinded, at the star, and saw that -black disk creeping across the light. It was the moon, coming between -the star and the earth. And even as men cried to God at this respite, -out of the east with a strange, inexplicable swiftness sprang the sun. -And then star, sun, and moon rushed together across the heavens.</p> - -<p>So it was that presently, to the European watchers, star and sun rose -close upon each other, drove headlong for a space, and then slower, and -at last came to rest, star and sun merged into one glare of flame at the -zenith of the sky. The moon no longer eclipsed the star, but was lost to -sight in the brilliance of the sky. And though those who were still -alive regarded it for the most part with that dull stupidity that -hunger, fatigue, heat, and despair engender, there were still men who -could perceive the meaning of these signs. Star and earth had been at -their nearest, had swung about one another, and the star had passed. -Already it was receding, swifter and swifter, in the last stage of its -headlong journey downward into the sun.</p> - -<p>And then the clouds gathered, blotting out the vision of the sky; the -thunder and lightning wove a garment around the world; all over the -earth was such a downpour of rain as men had never seen before; and -where the volcanoes flared red against the cloud canopy there descended -torrents of mud. Everywhere the waters were pouring off the land, -leaving mud stilted ruins, and the earth littered like a storm-worn -beach with all that had floated, and the dead bodies of the men and -brutes, its children.</p> - -<p>For days the water streamed off the land, sweeping away soil and -trees and houses in the way and piling huge dikes and scooping out -titanic gullies over the countryside. Those were the days of darkness -that followed the star and the heat. All through them, and for many -weeks and months, the earthquakes continued.</p> - -<p>But the star had passed, and men, hunger-driven and gathering courage -only slowly, might creep back to their ruined cities, buried granaries, -and sodden fields. Such few ships as had escaped the storms of that time -came stunned and shattered and sounding their way cautiously through the -new marks and shoals of once familiar ports. And as the storms subsided men -perceived that everywhere the days were hotter than of yore, and the -sun larger, and the moon, shrunk to a third of its size, took now fourscore -days between its new and new.</p> - -<p>But of the new brotherhood that grew presently among men, of the -saving of laws and machines, of the strange change that had Iceland and -Greenland the shores of Baffin’s Bay, so that the sailors coming there -presently found them green and gracious, and could scarce believe their -eyes, this story does not tell. Nor of the movement of mankind, now that -the earth was hotter, northward and southward towards the poles of the -earth. It concerns itself only with the coming and the passing of the -star.</p> - -<p>The Martian astronomers—for there are astronomers on Mars, although -they are different beings from men—were naturally profoundly interested -by these things. They saw them from their own standpoint, of course. -“Considering the mass and temperature of the missile that was flung -through our solar system into the sun,” one wrote, “it is astonishing -what little damage the earth, which it missed so narrowly, has -sustained. All the familiar continental markings and the masses of the -seas remain intact, and indeed the only difference seems to be a -shrinkage of the white discoloration (supposed to be frozen water) round -either pole.” Which only shows how small the vastest of human -catastrophies may seem at a distance of a few million miles.</p> - -<div class='tn'> - Transcriber’s Note: This story appeared in the June, 1926 issue of <em>Amazing Stories</em> magazine. - The introduction (“Here is an impressive story....”) was added by the publisher. -</div> - -<div style='display:block; margin-top:4em'>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE STAR ***</div> -<div style='text-align:left'> - -<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'> -Updated editions will replace the previous one—the old editions will -be renamed. -</div> - -<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'> -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, -so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United -States without permission and without paying copyright -royalties. 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