H. G Wells
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Three classics from the science fiction master in one volume.
From the incomparable H. G. Wells, this volume includes three novels of imagination, wit, and terror.
The Island of Doctor Moreau: The classic tale of a man's nightmarish experience trapped on an island where a doctor conducts gruesome experiments.
The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth: A science fiction tale with satirical undertones about scientists who create a race of giants,...
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We had golfed until golfing was invisible; we had dined, and we were in that mood of tranquil kindliness when men will suffer a story. When Clayton began to tell one, we naturally supposed he was lying. It may be that indeed, he was lying-of that, the reader will speedily be able to judge as well as I. He began, it is true, with an air of matter-of-fact anecdote, but that we thought was only the incurable artifice of the man.
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The World Set Free is a perfect example of H. G. Wells's gift for prophecy. Written on the eve of World War I, the novel predicts a major world war (although in the story the war doesn't start until 1956). The novel also examines the advent of atomic power, both as a bomb and a source of energy.
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Ironically enough, one of the twentieth century's leading pacifists wrote Little Wars, a book that has entertained and enlightened war buffs for the past hundred years. H. G. Wells, the great science-fiction pioneer, turned his attention from tales of time travel and alien invasions to write the first classic book of war games. His simulations of past battles and hypothetical future clashes allow readers to test their tactical and strategic skills...
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The First World War left the always forward-looking Wells obsessed with how to prevent another such conflict. This 1921 prescription for global peace includes technology, education, world government, revised sexual mores, and even an anthology to substitute for the Bible as solutions for reining in humankind's dark impulses.
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A sequel to "The War of the Worlds", "Star Begotten" concerns another suspected attack by the Martians, this time using cosmic rays to change human DNA. Joseph Davis is a writer of popular books who becomes obsessed with the rumours of invasion, so much so that he fears his wife, child, and even him might have already been affected by the cosmic rays.
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"The Mind of Mr. Joseph Davis Is Greatly Troubled",
"Mr. Joseph Davis Learns...
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La isla del Dr. Moreau de H.G. Wells es una obra fundamental de la ciencia ficción que sumerge a los lectores en una historia de ambigüedad moral, arrogancia científica y las inquietantes consecuencias de alterar el orden natural. Náufrago y varado en una misteriosa isla, Edward Prendick descubre los inquietantes experimentos del enigmático Dr. Moreau. El científico loco transforma animales en seres humanoides, desdibujando las fronteras entre...
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Having coined the phrase "the war that will end war," H. G. Wells was disillusioned by the World War I peace settlement. Convinced that humanity needed to awaken to the instability of the world order and remember lessons from the past, the author of numerous science fiction classics set out to write about history. Wells hoped to remind mankind of its common past, provide it with a basis for international patriotism, and guide it to renounce war. The...
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Miss Winchelsea was going to Rome. The matter had filled her mind for a month or more, and had overflowed so abundantly into her conversation that quite a number of people who were not going to Rome, and who were not likely to go to Rome, had made it a personal grievance against her. Some indeed had attempted quite unavailingly to convince her that Rome was not nearly such a desirable place as it was reported to be, and others had gone so far as to...
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Towards mid-day the three pursuers came abruptly round a bend in the torrent bed upon the sight of a very broad and spacious valley. The difficult and winding trench of pebbles along which they had tracked the fugitives for so long expanded to a broad slope, and with a common impulse the three men left the trail, and rode to a little eminence set with olive-dun trees, and there halted, the two others, as became them, a little behind the man with the...
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"Little Wars" by H. G. Wells. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are...
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"The Island of Doctor Moreau" is a science fiction, called "an exercise in youthful blasphemy". The text of the novel is the narration of Edward Prendick, a shipwrecked man rescued by a passing boat who is left on the island home of Doctor Moreau, who creates human-like beings from animals via vivisection. The novel deals with a number of philosophical themes, including pain and cruelty, moral responsibility, human identity, and human interference...
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"When The Sleeper Awakes" is a dystopian science fiction novel about a man who sleeps for two hundred and three years, waking up in a completely transformed London, where, because of compound interest on his bank accounts, he has become the richest man in the world. The main character awakes to see his dreams realized, and the future revealed to him in all its horrors and malformities. "Time Machine" is a dystopian story of time traveller who witnesses...
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This novel is split into two parts, „The Utopographer in the Garden" and „Advent". The former is set on the Italian Riviera where the novel's central figures, a British couple, The Rylands, entertain guests. The latter, written largely in the form of letters between the couple during the husband's trip to London, provides commentary on British political landscape of the 1920's. A pretty good book, detailed discussions on Socialism, Communism,...
217) Scientific War
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"Scientific War" is an article written by H. G. Wells and first published in 1915. It explores the ideas of the scientific advancement of war and the ramifications this has had-in the case of the start of the First World War-on all aspects of warfare from injuries to strategy. A fascinating treatise, "Scientific War" is highly recommended for those with an interest in WWI and the work of H. G. Wells.
218) World Brain
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'World Brain' is an article written by H. G. Wells and first contributed to the new 'Encyclopédie Française' in 1937. It explores the idea of a 'permanent world encyclopaedia' that would contain 'the whole human memory' and that would be 'a world synthesis of bibliography and documentation with the indexed archives of the world.' Fascinating and arguably prophetic reading, 'World Brain' will appeal to fans of any of Wells' work. Includes a specially...
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The observatory at Avu, in Borneo, stands on the spur of the mountain. To the north rises the old crater, black at night against the unfathomable blue of the sky. From the little circular building, with its mushroom dome, the slopes plunge steeply downward into the black mysteries of the tropical forest beneath. The little house in which the observer and his assistant live is about fifty yards from the observatory, and beyond this are the huts of...
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Scientific and Horrific Stories (2021) is a collection of short fiction by H. G. Wells. Despite his humble beginnings as the son of English servants, H. G. Wells would become one of the most revered writers of his day. His stories of adventure, utopia, and terror inspired such vastly different figures as Vladimir Nabokov, Winston Churchill, Jorge Luis Borges, and Sinclair Lewis. Many of his novels have been adapted for film, theater, radio, and television,...