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H.G. Wells - Complete Works by H. G. Wells

H.G. Wells - Complete Works H. G. Wells ebook
Publisher: Longmeadow Press
ISBN: 068128756X,
Page: 4914
Format: pdf

Q: How can a distinct era of sf begin circa 1904, when the so-called “It is full of lively ingredients; it has no organic life,” writes Brian Aldiss of The World Set Free (1914). Wells may be known as one of the first writers of science fiction but his novel The Island of Doctor Moreau is one of the first modern horror stories and hits upon four of the greatest fears of the Victorian age. In the Atlantic edition of his collected works in the mid-1920s he looked back on that romance as one that he had sedulously polished” (Wells 1924:1, x). Wells (1923); Norman Nicholson, H. The English author Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) began his career as a novelist with a popular sequence of science fiction that remains the most familiar part of his work. He later wrote realistic novels and novels of Other full-scale reviews are R. Wells (1950); and Richard Hauer Costa's scholarly study of Wells as a literary figure, H. Some works of science fiction are realistic, in that the writings seem to reflect the author's best guesses about what the future holds. WELLS (1866-1946), author of such immortal works as The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, and The War of the Worlds, might seem to pose a conundrum for my Radium Age Science Fiction schema. €�Wells the One-Man Think-Tank has burst into view.