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Miriam was raised in a society without children. To offset the devastation of climate change, state-of-the-art birth control has made daycares and playgrounds things of the past. As tempting as the government inducements are to remain child-free, Miriam’s curiosity about the people who “drop out” of society to become parents grows. When she finds a like-minded partner, she must choose between the rewarding comforts she knows and the unknowable mysteries of being a mother.

This 1911 collection of thirty-three stories, selected and revised by the author from amongst his huge output of short fiction, includes tales of comedy, horror, monsters, and strange worlds. In his Introduction, Wells writes that the book brings together, “All the short stories by me that I care for any one to read again,” and that, “No short story of mine of the slightest merit is excluded from this volume.”

Der Astronaut Hal Bregg kehrt - 127 Erdenjahre nach seiner Abreise - von einer Raumfahrt auf den Blauen Planeten zurück und findet sich in der menschlichen Gesellschaft nicht mehr zurecht. Da Hal nicht "betrisiert" ist - ein Routineeingriff, der nun bei allen Neugeborenen vorgenommen wird, um aggressives und gewalttätiges Verhalten zu unterdrücken -, wird er von seinen Mitmenschen gemieden und somit zum Außenseiter. Als er sich jedoch in die junge Frau Tarrit verliebt, schöpft er erneut Hoffnung.