41. H. G. Wells English Literature. H(erbert) G(eorge) Wells 18661946. . Wells QUOTATIONS MAJORWORKS BY HG Wells The Time Machine (1895). The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896). http://www.anglik.net/wells.htm

English Literature H(erbert) G(eorge) Wells 1866-1946 WELLS QUOTATIONS: "Every time I see an adult on a bicycle I no longer despair for the human race" "Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe" "No-one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that human affairs were being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their affairs they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water." (from WAR OF THE WORLDS 1898 MAJOR WORKS BY H. G. WELLS: The Time Machine (1895) The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896) The Invisible Man (1897) The War of the Worlds (1898) The First Men on the Moon (1901) The War in the Air (1908) The History of Mr. Poly (1909) The New Machiavelli (1911) READ ONLINE: The Island of Doctor Moreau Along with George Orwell 's Nineteen-Eighty-Four and Aldous Huxley' s Brave New World , Wells's novels are among the classics of science-fiction.

42. Wells - Named Collections (subject) - MSS - University Of Nottingham The HG Wells (18661946) Collection. It consists of works by the writer HG Wells(1866-1946). Occasional purchases are made to fills gaps in the holdings. http://mss.library.nottingham.ac.uk/spec_coll_commsubj_wells.html

Choose quick link to ... Opening hours Manuscripts A-Z Manuscripts by type A-Z FAUN Special Collections D H Lawrence Resources Links IS Special Collections Named collections (subject) Site map The H. G. Wells (1866-1946) Collection Background and scope Principal subject areas Catalogues Background and Scope of the Collection The Collection (c. 80 items) was donated to the Library in 1988 by Dr D. K. Whynes. It consists of works by the writer H. G. Wells (1866-1946). Occasional purchases are made to fills gaps in the holdings. Although primarily a collection of first editions, the concern has been to provide comprehensive coverage, and some of the items in question have been acquired as second-hand. Principal Subject Areas of the Collection The Collection is not limited to any particular genre, but includes works which demonstrates the breadth of Wells' output as a writer. Catalogues of the Collection Records for the Collection can be accessed via the Library's online catalogue . To browse the Collection, on the Basic Search screen, select 'Special Collection' in the Field to Search drop-down menu and enter the search term HGWC (the code for H. G. Wells Collection).

43. H.G. Wells: The Time Machine Herbert George Wells (18661946) Herbert George Wells was born in 1866 in Bromly,a small town near London. HG Wells died in his sleep on August 13, 1946. http://rebelweb.anoka.k12.mn.us/rebel/student4/diana/hgw.htm

H.G. Wells traverses with The Time Machine "No. I cannot expect you to believe it. Take it as a lieor a prophecy. Say I dreamed it in the workshop. Consider I have been speculating upon destinies of our race until I have hatched this fiction. Treat my assertion of the truth as a mere stroke of art to enhance its interest. And taking it as a story, what do you think?" The Story Wells Bio The Birth of the Time Machine H.G. Wells: The Poe of Science Fiction ... Literary Prophecies The Story The Time Machine is about the traveler who tells the story of his journey to the future in his time machine. This not only predicts the future containing the presence of time machines but also a time where the high class society lives in fear of the night dwelling ruffians that live underground. He demonstrates the perfect utopian society that lives happily and thoughtlessly in the day but in the night, when the light is no longer there to protect them, fears the Morlocks that live as cannibals. He eventually travels forward in time to witness the Earth at its death. Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) Herbert George Wells was born in 1866 in Bromly, a small town near London. He attended college and graduated with a degree in biology. His lower-middle-class background and his knowledge of science influenced his writings. He thought that science would make a better world. He also thought that that humans would destroy their own race by having a big atomic war and eventually kill each other off. Some of the books Wells wrote were The Time Machine, The Invisible Man The War of the Worlds and The Island of Doctor Moreau. He was very famous in his lifetime, and his books sold well. His book War of the Worlds was a radio drama, performed on Halloween night in 1938. Many people tuned in after they said "This is only a story", so they thought that Martian aliens were attacking Earth. So people grabbed their rifles and jumped in their cars and took off. H.G. Wells died in his sleep on August 13, 1946.

44. Guide To The Bernard F. Burgunder Collection Of George Bernard Shaw,[ca. 1810]-1 Thorndike, Sybil, 18821976. Thring, George Herbert, 1859-1941. Tunney, Gene, 1898-Wells, HG(Herbert George), 1866-1946. Arts Theatre Club (London, England). http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/htmldocs/RMM04617.html

Guide to the Bernard F. Burgunder Collection Of George Bernard Shaw, [ca. 1810]-1990 Collection Number: 4617 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Cornell University Library Contact Information: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu EAD encoding: Martin Heggestad, January 2003 DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY Title: Bernard F. Burgunder Collection of George Bernard Shaw, [ca. 1810]-1990. Collection Number: Creator: Bernard, Shaw 1856-1950. Quantity: 50.3 linear ft. Forms of Material: Manuscripts, letters, documents, photographs, broadsides, microfilms, videocassettes, audio cassettes, posters, and other materials. Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library Abstract: Manuscripts, letters, documents, photographs, broadsides, microfilms, videocassettes, audio cassettes, posters, and other materials by and about Shaw, covering all aspects of his varied literary, critical, personal, and political activities. BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE British playwright; literary, art, and music critic; lecturer and essayist; and socialist. One of the founders of the Fabian Society, precursor of England's Socialist Party.

45. Autores - H. G. Wells Translate this page HG Wells. (1866-1946). Biografía Herbert George Wells, el Shakespearede la ciencia-ficción según el decir de Brian Aldiss, era http://www.ciencia-ficcion.com/autores/hgwells.htm

H. G. Wells Herbert George Wells, el Brian Aldiss, Normal School of Science THE MAN OF THE YEAR MILLION, LA MAQUINA DEL TIEMPO, El resto es historia conocida; las grandes obras menores LA ISLA DEL DOCTOR MOREAU EL HOMBRE INVISIBLE LA GUERRA DE LOS MUNDOS WHEN THE SLEEPER WAKES Graham, EL ALIMENTO DE LOS DIOSES EN LOS DIAS DEL COMETA (1906) y LA GUERRA EN EL AIRE serias, KIPPS (1905) y LA HISTORIA DE MR. POLLY ANN VERONICA (1909), en la que defiende los derechos de las mujeres; TONO-BUNGAY (1909), un ataque al capitalismo irresponsable; y MR. BRITLING VA HASTA EL FONDO EL ESQUEMA DE LA HISTORIA Wells Wells sigue siendo conocido principal-mente por sus A lo largo de toda su vida, Wells 42 TO 44 EL DESTINO DEL HOMO SAPIENS (1934), antes de su muerte, el 13 de agosto de 1946, en Londres. 13 de Abril de 2000 Fuentes: Las entradas correspondientes del libro de Miquel Barcelo y la ENCICLOPEDIA ENCARTA 98, EL ALIMENTO DE LOS DIOSES Ed. Teorema. Una historia de los tiempos venideros, Ediciones Tor, (1953). Los Primeros hombres en la Luna, Ediciones Orbis

46. The Quotations Home Page - Unsorted Quotations - Series 23 organized life. HG Wells (18661946). Fools make researches andwise men exploit them. HG Wells (1866-1946). After people http://www.theotherpages.org/unsort08.html

Home Poetry Images Spy ... Trivia Quotations Quote Index Descriptions Search Suggestions Unsorted Quotations I say, if your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life. Calvin and Hobbes I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information. Calvin and Hobbes There's no problem that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse. Calvin and Hobbes Calvin: Do you believe in the devil? You know, a supreme evil being dedicated to the temptation, corruption, and destruction of man? Hobbes: I'm not sure man needs the help. Calvin and Hobbes My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four, unless there are three other people. Orson Welles Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life. H. G. Wells (1866-1946) Fools make researches and wise men exploit them. H. G. Wells (1866-1946) After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true. H. G. Wells (1866-1946)

47. Wells, H.G. Twelve Stories and A Dream. War of the Worlds, The Wells, HG (Herbert George).18661946. science fiction. We need your support to convert more books. http://www.dentonsoftware.com/DigitalLibrary/Wells_HG/Catalog.htm

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49. H.G.Wells BIOGRAFIA Da La Blioteca Di Babele Translate this page Wells, HG (Herbert George) (1866-1946). Nacque a Bromley, nel Kent,nel 1866. A diciotto anni, dopo avere lavorato qualche tempo http://members.fortunecity.com/marco_capelli/biblioteca/autori/hgwells/hgwells.h

web hosting domain names email addresses related sites ... La Biblioteca di Babele - Autori Herbert George Wells Citazioni Cronologia Bibliografia Links Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) (1866-1946) Nacque a Bromley, nel Kent, nel 1866. A diciotto anni, dopo avere lavorato qualche tempo come apprendista tappezziere, vinse una borsa di studio che gli consenti’ di iscriversi alla Normal School of Science, South Kensington dove si laureo’ con il massimo dei voti e dove inizio’ ad insegnare. Una malattia renale, causata da un calcio alla schiena ricevuto durante una partita di football, lo costrinse ben presto a ritirarsi dall’insegnamento. Qualche tempo dopo Wells si trasferi’ a Londra dove, forzato anche dalla poverta’ in cui si trovava, inizio’ a scrivere. Da principio divise il suo tempo fra collaborazioni giornalistiche e la stesura di testi scolastici (1893) ma fu il romanzo ‘ The Time Machine ’ (La macchina del tempo – 1895) che segno’ l’inizio della sua carriera letteraria.

50. Seminole County Public Library - Good Reading Guide - Reading List Of Great Work Orwell, George (19031950), 1984. Wells, HG (1866-1946), The Invisible Man. Wells,HG (1866-1946), The Time Machine. Wells, HG (1866-1946), The War of the Worlds. http://www.scpl.lib.fl.us/readinglist.html

Welcome to Seminole County Public Library Home Kids' Page Teen Page Information ... Good Reading Guide Reading List of Great Works This is a list of great written works compiled by an SCPL librarian. If you are looking for a classic to read, browse through our list of 219 works by 146 authors. Ancient Classics British Classics European Classics American 19th Century Novels ... Science and Mathematics Ancient Classics Author Title Fables Aristophanes (c.448-380 B.C.) Lysistrata Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) Ethics Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) Politics Euripides (c.484-408 B.C.) The Trojan Women Homer (c.800 B.C.) The Iliad Homer (c.800 B.C.) The Odyssey Plato (c.427-347 B.C.) The Republic Sophocles (496-406 B.C.) Antigone Sophocles (496-406 B.C.) Oedipus Rex Virgil (70-19 B.C.) British Classics Author Title Beowulf (c.700) Chaucer, Geoffrey (c.1340-1400) The Canterbury Tales Malory, Sir Thomas (1430-1471) Le Morte d'Arthur Milton, John (1608-1674) Paradise Lost Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) The Complete Works European Classics Author Title Arabian Nights (c.700-1500)

51. Index Of /pub/english/English Literature/W/H. G. WELLS (1866-1946) Parent Directory - ANN VERONICA......Index of /pub/english/English Literature/W/HG Wells (18661946). NameLast modified Size http://ftp.cdut.edu.cn/pub/english/English Literature/W/H. G. WELLS (1866-1946)

Index of /pub/english/English Literature/W/H. G. WELLS (1866-1946) Name Last modified Size Description ... ANN VERONICA/ 03-Jan-2002 16:30 - God The Invisible King.txt 01-Feb-1999 09:29 240K Soul of a Bishop.txt 02-Feb-1999 02:34 465K THE DOOR IN THE WALL/ 03-Jan-2002 16:30 - THE FIRST MEN IN THE MOON/ 03-Jan-2002 16:30 - THE INVISIBLE MAN/ 03-Jan-2002 16:30 - THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU/ 03-Jan-2002 16:30 - THE TIME MACHINE/ 03-Jan-2002 16:30 - THE WAR IN THE AIR/ 03-Jan-2002 16:30 - TONO-BUNGAY/ 03-Jan-2002 16:30 - The Wheels of Chance.txt 02-Feb-1999 02:36 331K The World Set Free.txt 01-Feb-1999 09:32 391K WAR OF THE WORLDS-BOOK1/ 03-Jan-2002 16:30 - WAR OF THE WORLDS-BOOK2/ 03-Jan-2002 16:29 - When the Sleeper Wakes.txt 01-Feb-1999 09:33 497K Apache/2.0.45 (Unix) Server at ftp.cdut.edu.cn Port 80

52. Herbert George Wells Herbert George Wells (18661946) The Time Machine, 104 K, The science fictionclassic in which HG Wells invented the concept of a time machine. http://www.handstory.com/ebook/wells.html

Search by Entire Site...... Clips eBooks Help HandStory eBooks eBook Basics Louisa May Alcott ... Special Collection Icon Key HandStory eBook Download eBook HandStory eBooks Herbert George Wells Novelist, science fiction writer, and commentator on politics and society, who actively debated issues with the noted thinkers of his time, including George Bernard Shaw. The Time Machine 104 K The science fiction classic in which H.G. Wells invented the concept of a time machine. First published in 1895. Dr. Moreau 140 K The classic tale of the hunter becoming the hunted. First published in 1896. Ann Veronica 318 K The novel that created a scandal for its portrayal of an emancipated woman. The June 30, 1912 New York Times Book Review labeled this book the "advance agent" of subsequent novels of "disturbing frankness." First published in 1909. The First Men in the Moon 220 K A science fiction favorite: mankind's first journey to the moon, complete with populations, "mooncalf pastures," and tragedy. First published in 1901.

53. Browse Top Level > Texts > Project Gutenberg > Titles > V Author Wells, HG (Herbert George), 18661946 Keywords Authors W Wells,HG (Herbert George), 1866-1946; Titles V ; Subject English Literature. http://webdev.archive.org/texts/textslisting-browse.php?collection=gutenberg&cat

54. H. G. Wells HG Wells Biographical notes by Blake Wilfong, British author Herbert GeorgeWells (18661946) was perhaps the true father of science fiction . http://wondersmith.com/scifi/wells.htm

H. G. Wells Biographical notes by Blake Wilfong "The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn." British author Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) was perhaps the true "father of science fiction". Everyone knows of his early SF novels The Time Machine The Island of Doctor Moreau The Invisible Man (1897), and The War of the Worlds (1898). But unlike Jules Verne before him, Wells also crafted many superb short science fiction storiesforeshadowing the form the genre would take in pulp magazines decades later. And the vitality and unrestrained imagination of Wells' writings makes them more readable today than Verne's. Wells was born in Bromley, Kent, to lower-middle-class parents. Despite grave financial difficulties and a poor early education, Wells earned a Bachelor of Science degree, with honors, in zoology and geology from the University of London in 1890. This scientific background would prove invaluable to his writing, though he was already producing science fiction as he worked toward his degree. In 1888, he published The Chronic Argonauts (an early draft of The Time Machine ) in the Science Schools Journal Wells also went on to write many historical volumes, literary novels and scientific texts, all of which he considered more important than his science fiction. Ironically, they are virtually forgotten today.

55. Michael Apweiler - H.G. Wells HG Wells (under construction) (Aaron A. Polson, kurze Biographie,einige Verweise) Wells, HG Herbert George, 1866-1946 (Werke elektronisch im http://webplaza.pt.lu/apweiler/michael/de/wells.htm

Michael Apweilers Seite(n) (Leider ziemlich in Vergessenheit geraten) Liste Sein Leben Ich werde hier keine Biographie schreiben; es gibt deren schon genug, von kompetenteren Menschen geschrieben. Neben den gedruckten Biographien (siehe meine ) habe ich inzwischen auch einige im Internet gefunden: Seiten zum Thema Delos 26: La scienza di H.G. Wells ("Time Machine" und die Fortsetzung "L'incognita temo" von Stephen Baxter) The short stories of H. G. Wells (Electronic Information Network library catalogue) H.G. Wells (polnische Seite, kann ich leider nicht lesen) Grand Entertainment - EFX - H.G. Wells (bombastisch, wenig Substanz) Books by H. G. Wells (ZIP-Dateien zum Herunterladen!) H.G Wells "THE INVISIBLE MAN (Gliederung) H.G Wells "THE INVISIBLE MAN (Suchfunktion) H.G. Wells (Liste einiger Werke, aber ...) The H. G.Wells Smorgasbord (Baustelle seit 1996) Wells (funktioniert nicht ?) H. G. Wells (?, kurze Biographie, sonst nichts?) H.G. Wells

56. Zeitenschmiede » Menschen » Albert Einstein Translate this page Herbert George Wells (1866-1946). HG Wells war einer der Mitbegründer und herausragendenVertreter der Science-Fiction innerhalb der englischen Literatur. http://www.zeitenschmiede.de/menschen/wells.html

....Wissenschaftler, Propheten, Visionäre - Gedanken über die Natur der Zeit.................................................... Geschichte, wie wir sie kennen, bleibt hier ungeschehen. Visionäre Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) H. G. Wells war einer der Mitbegründer und herausragenden Vertreter der Science-Fiction innerhalb der englischen Literatur. In seinen naturwissenschaftlich- phantastischen Romanen schilderte er prophetisch den Triumph der Technik, aber auch die Schrecken der Kriegstechnologie des 20. Jahrhunderts. Bereits sein erster Roman, "Die Zeitmaschine" (1895), wurde ein überwältigender Erfolg. In ihm kombinierte er gekonnt naturwissenschaftliches Wissen, Elemente des Abenteuerromans, politische Reflexionen und Motive einer technifizierten phantastischen Literatur, die er um das der Zeitreise erweiterte. Es folgten mehrere wissenschaftlich fundierte Zukunftsromane, mit denen er das Genre der modernen Science-Fiction begründete. Später schrieb er auch einige humoristische Romane über das englische Kleinbürgertum. Er betätigte sich jedoch nicht nur literarisch: Als Mitglied der Fabian Society und zeitweiliger Präsident des PEN-Clubs bekämpfte er die Missstände des Wirtschaftsliberalismus und trat für soziale Gesellschaftsreformen ein. Durch die Erfahrung des II. Weltkrieges war aus dem idealistischen Vorkämpfer für eine bessere Welt ein melancholischer Pessimist geworden. Besonders deutlich tritt dies in "Mind at the End of its Tether" (1945, "Der Geist am Ende seiner Möglichkeiten") hervor. Wells starb am 13. August 1946 in London.

57. Wells HG Wellls Wells, H(erbert) G(eorge) (18661946), English author, broadcaster,political philosopher and public figure, wrote and spoke on a wide range of http://www.cswnet.com/~dbruce/other/wells.html

H. G. Wellls Wells, H(erbert) G(eorge) (1866-1946), English author, broadcaster, political philosopher and public figure, wrote and spoke on a wide range of subjects but is, perhaps, most famous for his science-fantasy novels with their prophetic depictions of the triumphs of technology as well as the horrors of 20th-century warfare. Wells was born September 21, 1866, in Bromley, (an outer London borough), and educated at the Normal School of Science in London, to which he won a scholarship. He worked as a draper's apprentice, bookkeeper, tutor, and journalist until 1895, when he became a full-time writer. Wells's 10-year relationship with Rebecca West produced a son, Anthony West, in 1914. Throughout his long life Wells was deeply concerned with and wrote voluminously about the survival of contemporary society. For a time he was a member of the Fabian Society . He envisioned a utopia in which the vast and frightening material forces available to modern men and women would be rationally controlled for progress and for the equal good of all. Some critics have said his later works were increasingly pessimistic and that the author was in despair at the end of his life. '42 to '44 (1944) castigated most world leaders of the period; Mind at the End of Its Tether (1945) expressed the author's doubts about the ability of humankind to survive. Not all commentators concur with this view (see the excellent 'H.G.: The History of Mr Wells', by Michael Foot). Wells also wrote An Experiment in Autobiography (1934). He died August 13, 1946, in London.

58. Etext Conversion Project - The H.G.Wells Collection - Nalanda Digital Library HG.Wells (18661946) Nearly twenty calssic literatures of HG Wellshave collected and converted to pdf format by Nalanda Digital http://www.nalanda.nitc.ac.in/resources/english/etext-project/hgwells/h_g_wells.

H.G.Wells (1866-1946) Nearly twenty calssic literatures of H G Wells have collected and converted to pdf format by Nalanda Digital Library, as a part of its E-Text Conversion Project -ECP , is made avaialable here for easy reading on the terminal. More titles of the author will be added to further popularise them. H(erbert) G(eorge) Wells (1866-1946) English novelist, journalist, sociologist, and historian, whose science fiction stories have been filmed many times. Wells's best known works are THE TIME MACHINE (1895), one of the first modern science fiction stories, THE INVISIBLE MAN (1897), and THE WAR OF THE WORLDS (1898). Wells wrote over a hundred of books, about fifty of them novels. "No one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that human affairs were being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their affairs they were scrutinized and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinize the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water." (from War of the Worlds) Along with George Orwell's Nineteen-Eighty-Four and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, which was a pessimistic answer to scientific optimism, Wells's novels are among the classics of science-fiction. Later Wells's romantic and enthusiastic conception of technology turned more doubtful. His bitter side is seen early in the novel BOON (1915), which was a parody of Henry James.

59. World Brain: The Idea Of A Permanent World Encyclopaedia Note HG Wells (18661946), English writer. He graduated from LondonUniversity with a degree in biology in 1890. His scientific http://sherlock.berkeley.edu/wells/world_brain.html

World Brain: The Idea of a Permanent World Encyclopaedia H.G. Wells I Concurrently with these realizations there is a growing discontent with the part played by the universities, schools and libraries in the intellectual life of mankind. Universities multiply, schools of every grade and type increase, but they do not enlarge their scope to anything like the urgent demands of this troubled and dangerous age. They do not perform the task nor exercise the authority that might reasonably be attributed to the thought and knowledge organization of the world. It is not, as it should be, a case of larger and more powerful universities co-operating more and more intimately, but of many more universities of the old type, mostly ill-endowed and uncertainly endowed, keeping at the old educational level. Both the assembling and the distribution of knowledge in the world at present are extremely ineffective, and thinkers of the forward-looking type whose ideas we are now considering, are beginning to realize that the most hopeful line for the development of our racial intelligence lies rather in the direction of creating a new world organ for the collection, indexing, summarizing and release of knowledge, than in any further tinkering with the highly conservative and resistant university system, local, national and traditional in texture, which already exists. These innovators, who may be dreamers today, but who hope to become very active organizers tomorrow, project a unified, if not a centralized, world organ to "pull the mind of the world together", which will be not so much a rival to the universities, as a supplementary and co-ordinating addition to their educational activities - on a planetary scale.

60. BrothersJudd.com - Review Of H.G. Wells's The Invisible Man The Invisible Man (1897). Author Info HG Wells 18661946 Roughly a centuryago, HG Wells and Jules Verne virtually created the Science Fiction novel. http://www.brothersjudd.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/reviews.detail/book_id/771/Invi

@import url("css/iereview.css"); Search WWW Search brothersjudd.com Home Reviews Links Blog ... The Invisible Man Author Info: H.G. Wells Roughly a century ago, H.G. Wells and Jules Verne virtually created the Science Fiction novel. In a period of less than 4 years, Wells wrote three seminal classics of the genre: The Time Machine The Invisible Man (1897) and The War of the Worlds (1898). The Invisible Man, which owes an obvious debt to Frankenstein, is based on one of the eternal themes of mankind and one of the perennial themes of Science Fiction. First, it explores the nature of man by asking whether an invisible man would still be bound by normal morality. Second, it develops the theme of science as a two edged sword; after initially conveying great power, scientific innovation turns on its wielder, driving him mad. One hundred years later, this ambivalence about technology and scientific progress has remained a central part of our culture. As in all of the best books of the genre he helped to create, Wells combines these speculations with an exciting, fanciful tale. He and Verne truly set their successors a lofty standard to aspire towards. (Reviewed:) Grade: ( A- Websites: See also: Book-related and General Links: -REVIEW: ( Eddie Watts, Ed's Internet Book Review: Science Fiction/Fantasy)

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