"The Crystal Egg" is a science fiction short story written by H. G. Wells in 1897.Β β The story tells of a shop owner, named Mr. Cave, who finds a strange crystal egg that serves as a window into the planet Mars.Β β The story was written the same year in which Wells was serializing Β«The War of the WorldsΒ» in Pearson's Magazine, a year before it was published as a novel. Because of the vaguely similar descriptions of the Martians and their machines, Β«The Crystal EggΒ» is often considered a precursor to Β«The War of the WorldsΒ», though there is no clear foreshadowing of the events that transpire in the novel.
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