H. G. Wells
This volume collects 30 classic tales by H.G. Wells, including many of his early science fiction and fantasy stories. Included are:
INTRODUCTION, by Karl Wurf
THE STRANGE ORCHID
ÆPYORNIS ISLAND
THE PLATTNER STORY
THE ARGONAUTS OF THE AIR
THE STORY OF THE LATE MR. ELVESHAM
THE STOLEN BACILLUS
THE RED ROOM
A MOTH
IN THE ABYSS
UNDER THE KNIFE
THE RECONCILIATION
A SLIP UNDER
26) The Red Room
One of the founding fathers of science fiction, H. G. Wells is known for such landmark novels as The Time Machine and The Island of Doctor Moreau. In When the Sleeper Wakes, he sends a nineteenth-century man hurtling into an...
When the Minority Becomes the Majority
"In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king." - Desiderius Erasmus (a constant motive in The Country of the Blind short story)
Using his outstanding imagination and his ahead-of-time world views, H. G. Wells makes an interesting experiment in the short story The Country of the Blind: he creates a world in which the minority becomes the majority. In his attempt to conquer a mountain crest,
...Richard "Dick" Remington, who has a lifelong passion for "statecraft" and who dreams of recasting the social and political form of the English nation. Remington is a brilliant student at Cambridge, writes several books on political themes, marries a wealthy heiress and enters parliament as a Liberal influenced by the socialism of a couple easily recognisable as the Webbs, only to go over to the Conservatives. Remington undertakes
...Known for such classic novels as The Time Machine and The Island of Doctor Moreau, H. G. Wells is considered one of the fathers of science fiction. In The Dream, he introduces a man from a futuristic utopia who lives the complete life of an early twentieth-century...
37) The Star
In January 1900, the people of Earth awaken to the news that a strange luminous object has erupted, into the Solar System, after disturbing the normal orbit of the planet Neptune. Although initially it is only of interest to astronomers, eventually the world media announces that it is a whole star, heading in a collision course toward the center of our star system. From Wikipedia.
Mankind in the Making is H.G. Wells's sequel to Anticipations. Mankind in the Making analyzes the "process" of "man's making," i.e. "the great complex of circumstances which mould the vague possibilities of the average child into the reality of the citizen of the modern state." Taking an aggressive tone in criticizing many aspects of contemporary institutions, Wells proposed a doctrine
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