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Science Fictions by Herbert George Wells

This page contains all books written by Herbert George Wells.
Including:
Best Science Fiction Stories
The Conquest of Time
The Country of the Blind and Other Stories
First Men in the Moon
The H.G. Wells Reader
H.G. Wells: Thirty Strange Stories
The Invisible Man
The Island of Doctor Moreau
Modern Utopia
The New MacHiavelli
Selected Short Stories
The Strange Orchid
The Time Machine
The War of the Worlds
When the Sleeper Wakes
Ann Veronica
Best Science Fiction Stories of H.G. Wells
Christina Alberta's Father
The Correspondence of H.G. Wells
Crux Ansata : An Indictment of the Roman Catholic Church
The Dream
Fate of Man : An Unemotional Statement of the Things That Are Happening to Him Now, and of the Immediate Possibilities Confronting Him
The Favorite Short Stories of H. G. Wells.
Food of the Gods
Future in America : Foreign Travelers in America 1810-1935
History of Mr Polly
In the Days of the Comet
Kipps : The Story of a Simple Soul
Love and Mr Lewisham : The Story of a Very Young Couple
The Man With a Nose : And Other Uncollected Short Stories of H.G. Wells;
The Passionate Friends;
Russia in the Shadows;
The Sea Lady : A Tissue of Moonshine
The Star and Other Stories
Tales of Space and Time
Thirty Strange Stories
Time Machine;
Tono Bungay
The War in the Air
The War of the Worlds
Wheels of Chance the Time Machine
The Wonderful Visit (Lost Race and Adult Fantasy Fiction)
World Brain (Essay Index Reprint Series)

The Time Machine

A timeless classic

The Time MachineIt goes without saying that this book is a science fiction classic in every sense of the word and that H.G. Wells was a founding father of the genre. This book proves that science fiction does not necessarily need to be heavily technical but does need to deal with grand themes such as the nature of society.

After al the surprises we can look at the story as unique in its time, first published in 1895, yet the message is timeless. The writing and timing could not have been better. And the ending was certainly appropriate for the world that he describes. Possibly if the story were written today the species division would be based on eugenics.

The Time Machine by HG Wells

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The War of the Worlds

We've met the enemy, and they are us!

The War of the WorldsBut there is a great deal more going on here than just an entertaining story. Both the England and Europe of 1898 were imperialistic powers, beating less technologically advanced cultures into submission, colonizing them, and then draining them of their resources. With THE WAR OF THE WORLDS, Wells turns the tables, and imperialistic England finds itself facing the same sort of social, economic, and cultural extermination it has repeatedly visited on others.

This is the book which spawned/inspired all subsequent short stories, novels and movies about Alien invasion of Earth and mankind's attempts at resistance. From The Invasion of the Body Snatchers to the X Files, authors and producers owe an inestimable debt to HGW, who practically invented the Sci Fi genre. (Jules Verne earlier had coined the phrase "Scientific Romances" for his own creative tales.)

The War of the Worlds

by HG Wells

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The Island of Doctor Moreau

Perhaps Wells' Finest Novel

The Island of Doctor MoreauWells, a social reformer, was a very didactic writer, and his novels reflect his thoughts and theories about humanity. Much of Wells writing concerns (either directly or covertly) social class, but while this exists in MOREAU it is less the basic theme than an undercurrent. At core, the novel concerns the then-newly advanced theory of natural selection--and then works to relate how that theory impacts man's concept of God. Wells often touched upon this, and in several novels he broaches the thought that if mankind evolved "up" it might just as easily evolve "down," but nowhere in his work is this line of thought more clearly and specifically seen than here.

Nonetheless, like with Wells's other novels, reading THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU will feel familiar to modern readers. So many elements have been appropriated that we've all seen this time and again. That is also the problem with his books: so many elements have been appropriated that we've all seen this time and again. There are a few interesting scenes, but the truth is that a sense of familiarity runs throughout the book. This is not really a criticism of the book. It is more an acknowledgment of how successful it has been.

The Island of Doctor Moreau

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Best Science Fiction Stories of HG Wells

Best Science Fiction Stories by HG WellsIn typical Wellsian fashion, each story is festooned with those small details giving examples of careful though and review. for example in "The New Accelerator", the author is careful to not how the men's clothing becomes singed because they move so fast.

The number of things Wells envisons that have since come to exist include paved highways, powered flight, descent to the bottom of the sea in steel globes, and many more. It is perhaps ths aspect of the book that is the most fascinating.

If you love H.G. Wells and have the urge to want to own The Invisible Man and read short stories from this great king of science fiction I suggest buying this inexpensive book.
The 17 short stories included take up 178 pages, here is a list of them.
The Crystal Egg, The Man Who Could Work Miracles, The Plattner Story, The Strange Orchid, The New Accelerator, The Diamond Maker, The Apple, The Purple Pileus, A Dream of Armageddon, Aepyornis Island, In the Abyss, The Star, The Lord of the Dynamos, The Story of Davidson's Eyes, In the Avu Observatory, The Sea Raiders, and Filmer.

Best Science Fiction Stories by HG Wells

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The Conquest of Time

by HG Wells

The Conquest of TimeThis finite four-dimensional universe in which we live and move and have our being can expand. But if you find yourself believing it is expanding into some pre-existing space that was previously empty, then you have failed to grasp the four-dimensional idea. You are still living under the spell of what Einstein calls the 'Galilei-Newton' conception of three-dimensional infinite space. There is nothing whatever outside our four-dimensional universe, neither space nor time. All space and time are in it.

If humans are so smart, why do they behave so stupidly? Why are the talking monkeys so greedy and hateful? Where did civilization go wrong? The author of "The Time Machine" tries to figure it all out in this oft-overlooked and slim volume of original, non-fiction essays.

The Conquest of Time

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The Country of the Blind

and other stories by HG Wells

The Country of the BlindWells proves to be a master of most of the popular shorter forms of his day - the psychological horror, the monster story, the odd invention story, the romance, the harsh and gritty realistic story of crime. There are a few pieces here that I'm not crazy about, but nothing out and out bad. At any rate, if you don't find something to love in the stories I've mentioned, or most of the others in this collection, you are probably not a Wells fan. This is a touchstone.

Into this sightless world stumbles an outsider who can see with perfect vision. Surely in the country of the blind, the one eyed man is king? Not so! The locals deem him to be mad. Sight? How can this have any meaning in the country of the blind?

The Country of the Blind

by HG Wells

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The First Men in the Moon

by HG Wells

The First Men in the MoonBedford bankrupt businessman who is making a comeback by writing a play, through a series of circumstances, teams up with Professor Cavor a recluse scientist who does not realize his own potential. Together they build a contraption, sphere, that can cut off gravity waves. What can they do with such a device? You guessed it! Let's all traveled to the moon.

Once on the moon Bedford and Cavor find that they are not alone. After a few adventures they are detained by the Moonies referred to mostly in this story as Selenites. The daring duo is restrained with chains of gold. Cavor looks at this is a reasonable precaution and also looks forward to communicating with the strange creatures. Bedford is more practical and knows what chains mean. This means it's time to escape an escape they do.

Reading this book for the first time in the twenty-first century, one's thoughts go like this: "Hey, Wells made some pretty decent predictions about helium and the moon...well, except for the moon plants...and the giant moon cows...and the moon ant people. Never mind."

The First Men in the Moon

by HG Wells

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More books by H.G. Wells

Books by H. G. Wells
Books by H. G. Wells Herbert George Wells is a literary giant of English literature. No field
of writing was foreign to him. He was one of the foremost thinkers of his
time, and his works included excursions into history, social science, commentary,
futurism and so on. His fiction is held up as exa
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