Hg wells

'I completely wreck and sack Woking - killing my neighbours in painful and eccentric ways - then proceed via Kingston and Richmond to London, which I sack, selecting South Kensington for feats of peculiar atrocity...”

He created a "women's kingdom," but it came with a catch

Many of HG Wells’s futuristic prophecies have come true, but the one on which his heart was most set – the establishment of a world state – remains unfulfilled.

Illustrations by a little-known Brazilian artist for the first French translation of H. G. Wells’ science-fiction classic.

colorized by Jecinci // Wells was an English writer. He was prolific in many genres, writing dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, satire, biography, and autobiography, and even including two books on recreational war games. He is now best remembered for his science fiction novels and is often called a "father of science fiction", along with Jules Verne and Hugo Gernsback // source: facebook.com/jecinci

HG WELLS

The Invisible Man : H. G. Wells: Amazon.it: Libri

About H.G. Wells: Herbert George Wells was born to a working class family in Kent, England. Young Wells received a spotty education, interrupted by sever...

I just came into a slew (a huge box) of old Classics Illustrated comics... ...and I am totally digging the cover to HG Wells' "The War of the Worlds" from the mid-1950's.

The First Men in the Moon is a scientific romance published in 1901 by the English author H. G. Wells, who called it one of his "fantastic stories".[1] The novel tells the story of a journey to the moon undertaken by the two protagonists, a businessman narrator, Mr. Bedford, and an eccentric scientist, Mr. Cavor. Bedford and Cavor discover that the moon is inhabited by a sophisticated extraterrestrial civilization of insect-like creatures they call "Selenites". The narrator is a London…