Project Gutenberg 2009-10-07 Public domain in the USA. 88 Derleth, August 1909 1971 Derleth, August William Martin, Bob McIlvaine's Star Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net "McIlvaine's Star" by August Derleth is a science fiction narrative written in the early to mid-20th century. It centers around a character named Thaddeus McIlvaine, an eccentric amateur astronomer who claims to have discovered a dark star and embarks on a quest to communicate with its mysterious inhabitants. The story explores themes of belief, alien encounters, and the search for understanding and connection across the cosmos. In the tale, Thaddeus McIlvaine shares his discovery with a group of friends at a tavern, who respond with skepticism and humor. Undeterred, McIlvaine engages in communication with beings on his dark star, believing he possesses the means to connect with them through a home-made device. As the story progresses, McIlvaine's communications unveil a curious alien civilization, culminating in an ominous revelation that a war against humanity is imminent. The proceeding disappearance of his friend Richardson, coupled with McIlvaine's own enigmatic fate, leaves readers questioning the boundaries between sanity and belief, reality and imagination. Ultimately, the novel presents an exploration of an individual's quest for validation and recognition amidst isolation from both peers and an alien world. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Science fiction Short stories PS Text Science Fiction Browsing: Literature Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Browsing: Fiction 50539 50548 2024-09-13T04:19:02.386780 2023-09-13T09:21:03.202710 text/html text/html 46633 2021-01-05T17:42:30 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 177447 2021-01-05T17:42:30 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 229858 2024-09-13T04:19:05.648788 application/epub+zip 228411 2024-09-13T04:19:03.649797 application/epub+zip 119049 2024-09-13T04:19:02.867771 application/epub+zip 370428 2024-09-13T04:19:07.216765 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 281792 2024-09-13T04:19:05.097795 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 173538 2022-09-14T05:00:05.988600 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 43732 43631 2024-09-13T04:19:02.168823 2023-09-13T09:21:03.011704 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 43607 2021-01-05T17:42:30 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16566 2021-01-05T17:42:30 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 19001 2024-09-13T04:19:07.344759 application/rdf+xml 16062 2024-09-13T04:19:03.198779 image/jpeg 3961 2024-09-13T04:19:03.031764 image/jpeg 232706 2024-09-13T04:19:02.400802 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia