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A comet rushes toward Earth, a deadly, glowing orb that soon fills the sky, promising doom. But humankind is too busy hating, stealing, scheming & killing to care. As luminous green trails of cosmic dust & vapor stream across the heavens, blood flows beneath: nations wage all-out war, bitter strikes erupt, jealous lovers plot revenge & murder. The earth slips past the comet by the narrowest of margins, but all succumb to the gases in its tail. When humankind wakes up, everyone is completely & profoundly different. *In the Days of the Comet* is H.G. Wells's classic tale of the last days of the old earth & the extraterrestrial Change that becomes the salvation of the human species. An ill-fated romance between Willie Leadford & Nettie Stuart unfolds in a world buried in misery & bent on its own destruction. After the earth passes thru the comet's tail, suffering, pettiness & injustice melt away. Willie, Nettie & everyone around them are reborn. They now see themselves & their world in a dramatically new & wonderful way.