Arthur C Clarkes' "The Star" takes place in a spaceship in which the narrator and his crew members are going to explore the remains of the Phenix Nebula, a star that became a supernova. The purpose of the trip was to investigate the explosion of the star and learn from the catastrophe. But upon arrival they encounter the remains of a planet that had left what can be interpreted as a time capsule. This vault contained every aspect of the civilization that once habited the planet. The finding of the vault and its archeological treasures made the narrator think that the civilization knew with anticipation that their sun was giving signals of its end. The way that the persons left in the vault artifacts, artwork, recordings, and written works,
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There are differences between them, as in Clarkes' there was a religion aspect that never was touched in "The Star" by Wells even though it contained an apocalyptic situation. In "The Star" by Wells the situation that the star brought when it was closing in never where explained scientifically. The catastrophic events were narrated in detailed but they were not explained as in "The Star" by Clarkes. In Clarkes' there was more scientific knowledge represented in the story, as they mentioned their machines "spectrophotometer" and for example the explanation of the Super nova or the Dwarf, "When the star had exploded, its outer layers had been driven upward with such speed that they had escaped completely from its gravitational field." Even with this differences both "Stars" stories can be related in their main message. Both stories witness the apocalyptic end of a civilization and this experience gives each narrator in their respective stories a new way to see life. In H. D Wells the atmospheric events that destroyed much of the cities made the people more conscious after they ignored the mathematician warnings of a possible apocalypse. In Clarkes after the narrator suffer religious doubts because of the destruction of a planet, he calculated the exact date of the star explosion and concluded that it was the same star that shined in the Bethlehem
There are differences between them, as in Clarkes' there was a religion aspect that never was touched in "The Star" by Wells even though it contained an apocalyptic situation. In "The Star" by Wells the situation that the star brought when it was closing in never where explained scientifically. The catastrophic events were narrated in detailed but they were not explained as in "The Star" by Clarkes. In Clarkes' there was more scientific knowledge represented in the story, as they mentioned their machines "spectrophotometer" and for example the explanation of the Super nova or the Dwarf, "When the star had exploded, its outer layers had been driven upward with such speed that they had escaped completely from its gravitational field." Even with this differences both "Stars" stories can be related in their main message. Both stories witness the apocalyptic end of a civilization and this experience gives each narrator in their respective stories a new way to see life. In H. D Wells the atmospheric events that destroyed much of the cities made the people more conscious after they ignored the mathematician warnings of a possible apocalypse. In Clarkes after the narrator suffer religious doubts because of the destruction of a planet, he calculated the exact date of the star explosion and concluded that it was the same star that shined in the Bethlehem