Monday, 11 November, 2024 HG WELLS 1866-1946 comic novelist, science fiction write, satirist, socialist, futurist, journalist and debater THE TIMES: “Circumstances were on [Wells’] side. The same expansion of education that had enabled him to escape from retail work and made possible his tea...
world, this is not strictly true and this misconception arose because of the several highly abridged and ill-translated versions that became popular. Verne is a major writer in France and Europe and is often referred to as The Father of Science Fiction along with other greats like HG Wells. ...
Winston Churchill was a closet science fiction fan who borrowed the lines for one of his most famous speeches from HG Wells, says new research.Cassidy, Sarah
The Massacre of Mankind A sequel to HG Wells’s The War of the Worlds: the Martians have returned to finish the war . . . Gollancz, 19 January 2017. For fiction in the universe of The Massacre of Mankind, click HERE. Paid Links Obelisk Stories in the universe of Proxima, and other...
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On the other side of the prophetic ledger, the year’s events lent a HG Wells-ish air to some of the futurism that has become such a publishing staple recently. “As of 2016, there is no serious alternative to the liberal package of individualism, human rights, democracy and a free mark...
Jane Austen was a British novelist who died in 1817 at the age of just 41, but whose books have stood the test of time. In the 21st century, her novels continue to be not only studied in school but also read for pleasure. We asked the distinguished Austen scholarPatricia Meyer Spacksto...
It’s written in a fragmented, choppy style, leaping from one tale to the next, in which his father’s stint as a slave laborer in a Japanese camp leads to the dropping of the atom bomb in Hiroshima which leads to HG Wells affair with Rebecca West which leads to the Hungarian ...
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HG Wells wrote that Rome "gave government to the rich ... It was a colossally ignorant and unimaginative empire. It foresaw nothing. It had no strategic foresight because it was blandly ignorant of geography and ethnology." While Ferguson wouldn't be so harsh on Washington DC, there is no...