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The First Men in the Moon
H. G. WELLS (1866 - 1946)
Britain
won the Moon Race! Decades before Neal Armstrong took his "giant leap
for mankind" two intrepid adventurers from Lympne, England, journeyed
there using not a rocket, but an antigravity coating.
Mr.
Bedford, who narrates the tale, tells of how he fell in with eccentric
inventor Mr. Cavor, grew to believe in his researches, helped him build a
sphere for traveling in space, and then partnered with him in an
expedition to the Moon.
What they found was fantastic! There was
not only air and water, but the Moon was honeycombed with caverns and
tunnels in which lived an advanced civilization of insect-like beings.
While Bedford is frightened by them and bolts home, Cavor stays and is
treated with great respect.
So why didn't Armstrong and later
astronauts find the evidence of all this? Well, according to broadcasts
by Cavor over the newly-discovered radio technology, he told the
Selenites too much about mankind, and apparently, they removed the
welcome mat! (Summary by Mark)
Genre(s): Science Fiction
In the Days of the Comet
H. G. WELLS (1866 - 1946) William
("Willie") is a student living in the British town of Clayton. As a
Socialist, he tries to move power from the upper class to the working
class. Interestingly, in a fictitious confrontation Britain declares war
on Germany. Willie falls in love with Nettie, but when she elopes with
an upper-class man, Willie resolves to kill them both. Throughout the
novel there is present in the sky a large comet which gives off a green
glow. As Willie prepares to shoot the lovers, two battleships appear and
begin shelling the coast, causing Willie to nearly lose his targets. As
the comet enters the atmosphere, it gives off a green gas which
envelopes everyone including Willie, who falls asleep. Willie wakes up a
changed man. He is able to reason so clearly that he realizes the
foolishness of his plan for revenge. Other people have changed too. Our
hero marvels at how humankind has risen to new levels of vision and
understanding. (Summary from Wikipedia)
Genre(s): Science Fiction
The Invisible Man
H. G. WELLS (1866 - 1946) Terrifically
popular science fiction novel by renowned writer HG Wells, about a
scientist discovering how to achieve invisibility. But, in his case,
being out of sight evidently does NOT mean out of mind. (Summary by
Cathy Barratt)
The
Island of Doctor Moreau is an 1896 science fiction novel written by H.
G. Wells, addressing ideas of society and community, human nature and
identity, religion, Darwinism, and eugenics.
When the novel was
written in the late 19th century, England's scientific community was
engulfed by debates on animal vivisection. Interest groups were even
formed to tackle the issue: the British Union for the Abolition of
Vivisection was formed two years after the publication of the novel. The
novel is presented as a discovered manuscript, introduced by the
narrator's nephew; it then 'transcribes' the tale. (Summary from
Wikipedia)
Genre(s): Science Fiction The Time Machine
H. G. WELLS (1866 - 1946) Surely
the Time Traveler threw great dinner parties! His guests were treated
to a once-in-forever trial of a miniature time machine - an exquisite
miniature that acted so flawlessly as to appear to be stage magic. That
his guests did not believe the explanation - the machine vanished into
the mists of the future - was patent. Still, a couple of the more
thoughtful had reservations about branding the demonstration an outright
trickery. And what about the nearly-complete full-size Machine in the
Traveler's laboratory?
Confronted at the next party by the
disheveled Traveler, who had apparently suffered privations and who
displayed two curious flowers of no known type, the Narrator's
wonderment increased. For the Traveler provided a perfectly arresting
story to explain his condition - a surprising tale of a far future where
humankind divides into a carefree above-ground race, the Eloi, and a
mechanical subterranean race, the Morlocks. A tale in which it appears
that the inheritors of the Earth inhabit it as cattle for the feeding of
their underground cousins!
Believe, or disbelieve? But perhaps
the inventive genius of a man who can translate "thousands of millions
of days" of time travel into an exact date should not be doubted! (Intro
by Mark F. Smith)
The
Wheels of Chance - A Bicycling Idyll follows the adventures of a
Drapers Assistant who, having brought an ancient bicycle, sets off on a 2
week tour of the countryside. And his world will never be the same
again.(Summary by annise)
Genre(s): Humorous Fiction The War of the Worlds
H. G. WELLS (1866 - 1946) No
one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century,
that the Earth was being scrutinised and studied from across the gulf of
space. With infinite complacency, humanity went about its little
affairs, serene in its assurance of its empire over matter. It is
possible that the micro-organisms we watch under a microscope, do the
same. Few people gave thought to the idea of life on other planets, and
none imagined that it could be so vastly superior in intellect to
ourselves. No one considered the possibility of extra-terrestrial
danger. Yet the eyes that regarded our planet were envious and
unsympathetic, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us. (Cori
Samuel, adapted from Chapter One.)
Genre(s): Science Fiction Tales of Space and Time
H. G. WELLS (1866 - 1946) Five short Science Fiction stories. - Summary by Richard Kilmer