The next stop in my time travel marathon (November being Science Fiction Month) was The Time Machine, the novella by H.G. Wells that touched off a prodigious period in which the book and theater critic published this title, The Invisible Man, The Island of Dr. Moreau and The War of the Worlds in ...
PUTOPIS KATASTROFE LONDONSKOM OKOLICOMRat svjetova ima zanimljiv zaplet, otvaranje u kojem mirnu i idiličnu okolicu „majke svih gradova“ Londona uznemiri pad navodnog meteor, a beznačajna astronomska pojava postaje veća od svega do tada viđenog je definitivno najbolji dio knjige. Misterija i pomu...
This is the story of how one angry, naked, sneezing albino managed to terrorize the English countryside. To be quite honest, I expected a bit more from the people who single-handedly fended off the Nazis. But Wells seemed to think his fellow countrymen would be a bit too inept to toss a sheet ove...
In this as in other older books, edition is important. This is the 1984 printing of the Signet Classic edition 'with an introduction by John Calvin Batchelor'.I'm of two minds about whether to recommend reading the introduction. Its primary function seems to be to annoy readers of Wells' works ...
This edition has no real critical material or even printing history. Thus I had to look the title up to find out when the book was originally published (1906, to save duplicate efforts). This edition is a cheap edition, a 2nd printing of a Berkley Highland edition. It's dated 1969, and has, not a...
These are the ways the world ends. Thirty-four new and selected Doomsday scenarios: an enthralling collection of work by canonical literary figures, contemporary masters, and a few rising stars, all of whom have looked into the future and found it missing. Across boundaries of place and time, the...
"I assisted him to screw in the glass cover of the manhole, and then he pressed a stud to close the corresponding blind in the outer case. The little oblong of twilight vanished. We were in darkness.For a time neither of us spoke. Although our case would not be impervious to sound, everything was...
(Reprinted from the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography [cclapcenter.com]. I am the original author of this essay, as well as the owner of CCLaP; it is not being reprinted here illegally.)The CCLaP 100: In which I read for the first time a hundred so-called "classics," then write report...
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do ...
When the intrepid Time Traveller finds himself in the year 802,701, he encounters a seemingly utopian society of evolved human beings but then unearths the dark secret that sets mankind on course toward its inevitable destruction. An insightful look into a distant, bleak, and disturbing future, T...
A very nice volume collecting Wells' The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds.The Time Machine is Wells' classic science fiction novella about a time traveller who journeys forward in time and finds that both human society and the species itself have developed in ways both astonishing and horri...
This is a surprisingly powerful novel, but not one with aliens or fantastic machines or representations of utopian futures, which are the things for which H.G. Wells is most noted. This is not that kind of book. There isn’t a driving plot that requires resolution. It falls firmly into the ‘litera...
"Great shapes like big machines rose out of the dimness, and cast grotesque black shadows, in which dim spectral Morlocks sheltered from the glare."Chilling, prophetic and hugely influential, The Time Machine sees a Victorian scientist propel himself into the year 802,701 AD, where he is delighte...
La guerra de los mundos es un clásico tanto de la ciencia ficción como de la literatura universal. Pocos libros como éste plasman con tal nitidez e inteligencia la condición humana en sus más crudos aspectos.A lo largo de la poderosa escritura de Wells vemos cómo los marcianos, que arriban a la T...
I know why I'm having a problem with this: because it's not believable. Even if he was rapidly becoming infected after swallowing the two drops, the route of transmission from one person to another is NOT by rubbing your "infected body" against other people. The routes of transmission for V. chol...
G. Wells @page { margin-bottom: 5.000000pt; margin-top: 5.000000pt; } THE STORY OF THE LAST TRUMP 1 The story of the Last Trump begins in Heaven and it ends in all sorts of places round about the world . . . Heaven, you must know, is a kindly place, and the blessed ones do...
But, by an effort, he attended to the things which Lincoln was saying. Soon his preoccupation vanished. Lincoln was talking of flying. Graham had a strong desire to know more of this new human attainment. He began to ply Lincoln with questions. He had followed the crude beginnings of aërial navig...