H. G. Wells 16 min read

A great star appears in the sky, drawing steadily nearer, and while the public marvels, one lonely astronomer works his calculations and knows what its coming means for the Earth.

H. G. Wells's 1897 story is a landmark of cosmic-disaster SF. Sublime, sweeping, superbly told. Read it for one of the great short SF stories, the slow, majestic approach of a rogue star and the cataclysm it brings, rendered with Wells's unmatched sense of scale, awe, and cosmic indifference.

In its time

Published in 1897, during the 1890s, wells arrives.

Reading it

16 min read (a short story, a single idea, delivered and gone).