 The dialogue of "Star Begotten" makes brief references to Wells's earlier novel, referring to it as having been written by "Jules Verne, Conan Doyle, one of those fellows".The protagonist of the story Joseph Davis, who is an author of popular histories, becomes overtaken with suspicion that he and his family have already been exposed and are starting to change.At the end of "Sherlock Holmes's War of the Worlds", Professor Challenger indicates that the "Martians" (not really from Mars in the story) from "The War of the Worlds" are the same Martians from "Star Begotten", and hints at the start of the Martian alteration-program.