LAWRENCE — Well-known Kansas science fiction writer James Gunn says he borrowed the title of his memoirs, “Star-Begotten,” from H.G. Wells, a pioneer of the genre.
However, Gunn said the 1937 novel “Star Begotten” isn’t typical of Wells.
“There are no alien invasions, no time machines, no trips to the moon by anti-gravity, no apocalyptic transformations of the human species,” Gunn said. Instead, Wells wrote about “a quiet social drama focused around a man’s obsession with the notion that people’s minds are being taken over by ...