H.G. Wells

The Time Machine (2002)

The next stop in my time travel marathon (November being Science Fiction Month) was The Time Machine, the novella by H.G. Wells that touched off a prodigious period in which the book and theater critic published this title, The Invisible Man, The Island of Dr. Moreau and The War of the Worlds in ...

The War of the Worlds (2002)

PUTOPIS KATASTROFE LONDONSKOM OKOLICOMRat svjetova ima zanimljiv zaplet, otvaranje u kojem mirnu i idiličnu okolicu „majke svih gradova“ Londona uznemiri pad navodnog meteor, a beznačajna astronomska pojava postaje veća od svega do tada viđenog je definitivno najbolji dio knjige. Misterija i pomu...

The Invisible Man (2002)

This is the story of how one angry, naked, sneezing albino managed to terrorize the English countryside. To be quite honest, I expected a bit more from the people who single-handedly fended off the Nazis. But Wells seemed to think his fellow countrymen would be a bit too inept to toss a sheet ove...

The Time Machine/The Invisible Man (2005)

In this as in other older books, edition is important. This is the 1984 printing of the Signet Classic edition 'with an introduction by John Calvin Batchelor'.I'm of two minds about whether to recommend reading the introduction. Its primary function seems to be to annoy readers of Wells' works ...

In the Days of the Comet (2002)

This edition has no real critical material or even printing history. Thus I had to look the title up to find out when the book was originally published (1906, to save duplicate efforts). This edition is a cheap edition, a 2nd printing of a Berkley Highland edition. It's dated 1969, and has, not a...

The Apocalypse Reader (2007)

The First Men in the Moon (2005)

"I assisted him to screw in the glass cover of the manhole, and then he pressed a stud to close the corresponding blind in the outer case. The little oblong of twilight vanished. We were in darkness.For a time neither of us spoke. Although our case would not be impervious to sound, everything was...

The Island of Dr. Moreau (1994)

(Reprinted from the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography [cclapcenter.com]. I am the original author of this essay, as well as the owner of CCLaP; it is not being reprinted here illegally.)The CCLaP 100: In which I read for the first time a hundred so-called "classics," then write report...

The Secret Places of the Heart (2009)

The Time Machine: An Invention (2002)

The Time Machine/The War of the Worlds (1986)

A very nice volume collecting Wells' The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds.The Time Machine is Wells' classic science fiction novella about a time traveller who journeys forward in time and finds that both human society and the species itself have developed in ways both astonishing and horri...

Mr. Britling Sees it Through (2007)

This is a surprisingly powerful novel, but not one with aliens or fantastic machines or representations of utopian futures, which are the things for which H.G. Wells is most noted. This is not that kind of book. There isn’t a driving plot that requires resolution. It falls firmly into the ‘litera...

The Time Machine (Penguin Student Editions) (2015)

La guerra de los mundos (2015)

The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents (2005)

I know why I'm having a problem with this: because it's not believable. Even if he was rapidly becoming infected after swallowing the two drops, the route of transmission from one person to another is NOT by rubbing your "infected body" against other people. The routes of transmission for V. chol...