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Published by Octopus, London, 1983
ISBN 10: 0861782941ISBN 13: 9780861782949
Seller: The Glass Key, Montmorillon, France
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Hardcover. Condition: near Very Good. First printing of this edition. 17 SF stories with b&w illustrations by Peter Dennis. Glazed printed paper on boards. Contents clean and tightly bound without dust-jacket (as issued?). Includes tales by H.G. Wells and Arthur C. Clarke and adventures from Doctor Who and Star Wars.
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ISBN 10: 1539965953ISBN 13: 9781539965954
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Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.7.
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ISBN 10: 1536916420ISBN 13: 9781536916423
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Published by Independently published, 2018
ISBN 10: 1791908934ISBN 13: 9781791908935
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ISBN 10: 1533060126ISBN 13: 9781533060129
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Published by Random House USA Inc, New York, 1986
ISBN 10: 0449300439ISBN 13: 9780449300435
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The Time MachineWhen the Time Traveller courageously stepped out of his machine for the first time, he found himself in the year 802,700-and everything had changed. In this unfamiliar, utopian age creatures seemed to dwell together in perfect harmony. The Time Traveller thought he could study these marvelous beings-unearth their secret and then return to his own time-until he discovered that his invention, his only avenue of escape, had been stolen.H. G. Wells's famous novel of one man's astonishing journey beyond the conventional limits of the imagination first appeared in 1895. It won him immediate recognition and has been regarded ever since as one of the great masterpieces in the literature of science fiction.The War of the WorldsH. G. Wells's science fiction classic, the first novel to explore the possibilities of intelligent life from other planets, is still startling and vivid nearly a century after its appearance, and a half century after Orson Welles's infamous 1938 radio adaptation.This daring portrayal of aliens landing on English soil, with its themes of interplanetary imperialism, technological holocaust, and chaos, is central to the career of H. G. Wells, who died at the dawn of the atomic age. The survival of mankind in the face of "vast and cool and unsympathetic" scientific powers spinning out of control was a crucial theme throughout his work. Visionary, shocking, and chilling, The War of the Worlds has lost none of its impact since its first publication in 1898. H. G. Wells Scientific visionary. Social prophet. Master storyteller. Few novelists have captivated generations of readers like H. G. Wells. In enduring, electrifying detail, he takes us to dimensions of time and space that have haunted our dreams for centuries — and shows us ourselves as we really are. The time machine In the heart of Victorian England, an inquisitve gentleman known only as the Time Traveler constructs an elaborate invention that hurtles him hundreds of thousands of years into the future. There he finds himself in the violent center of the ultimate conflict between beings of light and creatures of darkness. The war of the worlds Martians invade Great Britain, laying waste turn-of-the-century London. This tale of conquest by superior beings with superadvanced technology is so nightmarishly real that an adaptation by Orson Welles and the Mercury Theater sent hundreds of impressionable radio listeners into panicked flight forty years after the story's original publication. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by Platt & Munk, 1963
Seller: Grants Books, Belding, MI, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. .The Time Machine is not only a fantastic adventure. The Morlocks of the year are a physical menace to the hero, true, but they also frighten us by showing what man might become. The fact that these fears are still with us undoubtedly helps to give Wells his extraordinary air of modernity. And yet-none of this would matter in the least without the peculiar thrill conveyed by the actual narrative, the events themselves. How is it that Well's marvels lay such close hold on us? Because we are made to feel that they are possible. Plenty of amazing things happen in Hans Christian Andersen's stories, but nobody seriously believes in them. Even Edgar Allan Poe's tales often give a feeling of unreality. Well's secret-and a valuable heritage passed on to later writers of science fiction-was to lay the fantastic and the fabulous side by side with the everyday, even the humdrum. Thus the outlandish doings of the Martians in The War of the Worlds are recounted in a soberly factual, documentary style, with times and places quoted almost in manner of a military communique. Whether or not we know the area in which the first invaders appear (the western part of the county of Surrey, roughly twenty-five miles from London), we are convinced that Wells knew it intimately. In the same way, Wells induces us to accept his Time Machine by the very matter-of-fact atmosphere of the opening scenes. And the Time Traveler himself is no mystic or scientific super genius, but a cheerful talkative, rather ordinary chap like you and me. Even Wells's short stories use this method now and again. The hero of "In the Abyss" is prosaic as the Time Traveler, and the technology we hear about at the beginning puts us in the frame of mind in which the strange creatures on the sea bottom seem not impossible. Notice too the severely scientific terminology in the description of the first specimen encountered. (part of the Foreword by Kingsley Amis, Cambridge England, Marco 1963) .There is realism in The Time Machine, but there is poetic feeling too. The picture of a dying world near the end is one of the most haunting visions of desolation and loneliness in all literature. Then there is the infectious lightness and dryness of "The Truth About Pyecraft." From time travel to space travel, from interplanetary communication to global disaster-he seems to have invented it all.
Published by Edugorilla Community Pvt. Ltd., 2022
ISBN 10: 9390893690ISBN 13: 9789390893690
Seller: Books Puddle, New York, NY, U.S.A.
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Published by Simon and Schuster, New York, 1973
ISBN 10: 0671215205ISBN 13: 9780671215200
Seller: LEFT COAST BOOKS, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Cloth, xvi, 487 pages, illustrations 25 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket toned, with light shelfwear. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. CONTENTS: Downstairs persons; The burden of Atlas House; False starts; The vision of science; Grub Street; Isabel or Catherine?; Writing away for dear life; Tales of space and time; Friendships; Treasure house on the sea shore; The discovery of the future; Faults of the Fabian; Storm in a Fabian teacup; Taking liberties; Lost orientations; Jane or Amber?; A tangle of moods and impulses; The frame and the picture; The war that will end war; Salvation by history; Beginning again; Vexatious litigation; The burden of Atlas; Education or catastrophe; Hammering away; The last judgement. Size: 8vo.
Published by Maven Books, 2019
ISBN 10: 9388191625ISBN 13: 9789388191623
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Published by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017
ISBN 10: 1977882358ISBN 13: 9781977882356
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Published by SDE Classics, 2018
ISBN 10: 1949982831ISBN 13: 9781949982831
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Published by Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2023
ISBN 10: 0198891946ISBN 13: 9780198891949
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. 'I seemed to gaze upon a vast space, the limits of which extended far beyond my vision.'This anthology gathers together seventeen gripping tales from the nineteenth and early twentieth century that make up the foundations of science fiction. It moves from Mary Shelley to H. G. Wells, from Edgar Allan Poe to W. E. B. Du Bois, and from George Eliot to Jack London. Before the term 'science fiction' was established, writerspursued a new and strange subject matter, to be written about in a startlingly new way. The selected stories in this collection reflect the many diverse paths that led towards science fiction, including scientific Gothic,dystopian fantasies, psychological hoaxes, feminist parables, fictions of time-travel, adventure stories, uncanny tales, and stories of alien encounters. The anthology unveils the power of the literature of the period and exposes our fascination with scientific discovery and the allure (and threat) of the imagined future.This edition includes an introduction by Michael Newton setting out the themes of the tales and exploring the development of science fiction. Newtonexplores how the stories engage with anxiety about the limits of the rational mind, the fact of Empire and the discoveries of anthropology, the uneasy figure of the scientist, the rapid development oftechnology, and the presence of the alien other.ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more. This anthology gathers together seventeen gripping tales from the nineteenth and early twentieth century that make up the foundations of science fiction. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by MONDIAL, 2008
ISBN 10: 1595691200ISBN 13: 9781595691200
Seller: Irish Booksellers, Portland, ME, U.S.A.
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Published by Innovate Creators, 2024
ISBN 10: 1805470426ISBN 13: 9781805470427
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Published by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2018
ISBN 10: 1986611922ISBN 13: 9781986611923
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ISBN 10: 1544606214ISBN 13: 9781544606217
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ISBN 10: 1718919891ISBN 13: 9781718919891
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Published by Independently published, 2018
ISBN 10: 1731335156ISBN 13: 9781731335159
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ISBN 10: 1976538483ISBN 13: 9781976538483
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Published by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017
ISBN 10: 1542344042ISBN 13: 9781542344043
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Published by Writers of the Apocalypse, 2019
ISBN 10: 1944322558ISBN 13: 9781944322557
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Published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014
ISBN 10: 1495983692ISBN 13: 9781495983696
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. This premium quality large print volume includes the complete and unabridged text of H. G. Wells' original science fiction classic -- The War of the Worlds -- an enduring and still-popular work which exerted a huge influence on the science fiction genre which continues today. This freshly edited and newly typeset edition features a large 7.44"x9.69 page size and is printed on heavyweight bright white paper with a fully laminated cover featuring an original full color design. Also included in this volume are page headers and an introductory biographical sketch discussing Wells' life, work and continuing literary significance. This tale involves the theme of humanity coming into conflict with strange alien societies, in this case the invasion of the earth by hostile Martians. Wells would revisit this theme, in the context of the encounter between human explorers and the native inhabitants, in The First Men in the Moon . A common theme in the science fiction genre, these tales by Wells represent two of the earliest and most influential such stories. But unlike so many of the similar stories that have followed, Wells did not posit either the innate superiority of humanity or man's scientific achievements as the earth's salvation. Rather, Wells' story portrays humanity as more or less at the mercy of forces beyond its control, reflecting an underlying fear that scientific discovery and progress might not make man the unchallenged master of the universe after all. Herbert George Wells (1866-1946), was born to shopkeepers who had previously been employed as domestic servants. When an injury ended his father's income as a professional cricketer, Wells' parents, on the brink of poverty, apprenticed him to a draper, but he was dismissed after a short time and subsequently became a "pupil-teacher" in a system where older students helped teach younger students. Despite having little formal education, Wells, a voracious reader, won a scholarship to the Normal School of Science in London where he completed courses in biology and physics, but left the school in 1887 after failing geology and losing his scholarship. Best known today for his science fiction works, Wells' first published book was a biology textbook in 1893. With the publication of The Time Machine in 1895 Wells began a long and successful writing career. The next several years saw the publication of The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The First Men in the Moon and many other works ranging from humorous social commentary novels to non-fiction and political polemics. In 1920, he published his landmark Outline of History, which became the model for "outline" texts in a variety of disciplines. Over time Wells' works became increasingly political, contentious and argumentative and only his early science fiction novels are widely read today. Those novels provide insights into the science and society of Wells' day and are interesting for their prediction of future events and scientific developments. Wells' science fiction tales are also very entertaining and easy to read. Many of his story elements, like time travel, hostile aliens, mutant creatures and space travel, became common themes in science fiction In literary circles, Wells' comic novels, virtually unknown to readers of today, are considered outstanding examples of 20th century British literature, and Wells' work is regarded as one of the best examples of pre-World War I liberal optimism. Yet Wells' social optimism is tempered, particularly in his science fiction works, and he clearly voices a sense of dread of science and technology gone out-of-control that runs through post-Victorian British thought. Wells is often referred to as one of "The Fathers of Science Fiction," and "science fiction" today might look very different without Wells' contributions. This item is printed on demand Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by Penguin Books Ltd, London, 2016
ISBN 10: 0241277493ISBN 13: 9780241277492
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. An omnibus of all four of the greatest science-fiction novels of H. G. WellsIn the space of less than four years, H. G. Wells (1866-1946) published four of the most influential, original and hair-raising of all works of science-fiction. In a life of tireless experiment, travelling and intellectual engagement, Wells was both a leading public figure and one of the great imaginers of the modern world, but his reputation was always dominated by these amazing novels- The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man and The War of the Worlds. Each is great in its own right, but they also became the 'books of Genesis' for entire genres of speculative fiction.This omnibus allows them to be read together, perhaps for the first time allowing the full range of Wells's achievement to be understood. 'No one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's' Exploring the primordial nightmares that lurk within humanity's dreams of progress and technology, H. G. Wells was a science fiction pioneer. This new omnibus edition brings together four of his hugely original and influential science-fiction novels - The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man and The War of the Worlds - with his most unsettling and strange short stories. Containing monstrous experiments, terrifying journeys, alien occupiers and grotesque creatures, these visionary tales discomfit and disturb, and retain the power to trouble our sense of who we are. With an introduction by Matthew Beaumont Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by Sterling - Barnes and Noble, New York, 2003
ISBN 10: 1402709765ISBN 13: 9781402709760
Seller: W. Fraser Sandercombe, Burlington, ON, Canada
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Printing - First Thus. (xiv) 610 pp. Please note, this is a very heavy book and, depending where in the world you are, the shipping might be higher than normal. Trade paperback format. Light edge and corner wear with some creasing on the spine; no interior markings. Also edited by Robert Weinberg and Martin H. Greenberg, this anthology contains: Witches in the Cornfield by Carl Jacobi; The Mandrakes by Clark Ashton Smith; Daughters by Juleen Brantingham; Sorrow Laughed byTom Piccirilli; Heartbeat by Nancy Kilpatrick; The Mudang by Will Murray; This House by Yvonne Navarro; Gramma Grunt by Donald R. Burleson; By the Hair of the Head by Joe R. Lansdale; The Hunt by James S. Dorr; The Fit by Ramsey Campbell; Somewhere My Love by Stephen Mark Rainey; The Scream by Mike Ashley; Next Door Neighbor and Hair Apparent by Don D'Ammassa; Witch Hunt by Christie Golden; The Laurel Lake Laser by Aimee Kratts; The Only Way to Fly by Nancy Holder; The Princess and the Frog by Tina L. Jens; There'll be Witches by Joe Meno; Alan's Mother and A Hundred Wicked Little Withches by Steve Rasnic Tem; Blood Man by Simon McCaffrey; Mobile Home by Michael Skeet; Of Time and Space by Hugh B. Cave; A Matter of Honor by R. K. Partain; A Good Witch is Hard to Find by Dawn Dunn; Psychomildew Love by Lois H. Gresh; The Career Witch by Thomas M. Sipos; Retrocurses by Terry Campbell; Beware of That for Which you Wish by Linda J. Dunn; Cerile and the Journeyer and Vend A Witch by Adam-Troy Castro; The Witch of the World's End by Darrell Schweitzer; Inyanga by Janet Berliner Gluckman and George Guthridge; Requiem for a Witch by Dan Perez; Crone Woman Gandy by Richard Gilliam; The Devil's Men by Brian Stableford; The Caress of Ash and Cinder by Cindie Geddes; I Feel My Body Grow by Del Stone Jr.; The Conversion of St. Monocarp by Brian McNaughton; Garage Sale by Janet Fox; Buyer Beware and Newcomer by Tim Waggoner; On the Wings of the Wind by Lillian Csernica; Alexa Skyclad and The Politically Incorrect Witch by Benjamin Adams; Angel of the Eleventh Hour by Joel S. Ross; Overdue Fines by Edo van Belkom; 1-900- Witches by Nancy Holder and Waynes Holder; Shedding Light on the Black Forest by Brent Monahan; Suffer a Witch by Mike Baker; Grue Love by David Annandale; Dry Skin by Charles M. Saplak; Gather Round and You Shall Hear and Brownouts by Billie Sue Mosiman; Fish Witch by Lois G. Gresh; The Hammer of Witches by Mark Kreighbaum; Witch Hunter by Douglas Hewitt; A Spell of Research by Brad Stickland; How the Cookie Crumbles by Mollie L. Burleson; Coming Out of the Broom Closet by Lawrence Schimel; Bat's Blood for Flavor by Adam Niswander; the Metropolitan Menace by Gordon Linzner; In the Cards by Martin R. Soderstorm; Plague by Ernest Leong; Under Control by Danielle D'Attilio; Dressed to Live by C. Bruce Hunet; Common Grounds by P. D. Cacek; She's My Witch by Norman Partridge; The Angel by Christie Golden; The Good Witch of the North Wing by Steve Antczak; Fiddlesticks by T. Diane Slatton; Empty Jar Empty Chest by Stephanie D. Shaver; Small Workers by Lois Tilton; A Wild Imagination by Lisa Lepovetsky; Quiet Please by Richard Parks; Silhouette by Mark McLaughlin; Master Tape by Rick Hautla; The Edge by Adam Meyer; Do No Harm by Pamela D. Hodgson; Magician's Assistant by Adam Meyer; Bad Things Happen on Halloween by Lucy Taylor; Midnight Oil by L. S. Silverthorne; Invitation by Katherine Lamsland; Blood of the Rose by Karen E. Taylor; Predator's Moon by Mel Odom; Djinneyah and Co. by Blythe Ayne; Agnes Across the Swamp by Rich Powell; Hunger Gulag by Martin Mundt; Young Good Wife Doten by Robert M. Price; Just the Two of Us by Hugh B. Cave; A Bluegrass Reunion by Ben P. Indick; Poppet by Kathryn Ptacek; The Robbery by Cynthia Ward; Patience Serves by David C. Smith; Saunder's Little Friend by August Derleth; In the Chimney by Simon MacCulloch; and Wall of Darkness by Basil Wells. Size: 8vo. Book.
Published by Powell, 1969
Seller: Clarkean Books, Stoney Creek, ON, Canada
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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Bill Hughes (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition/printing thus 1969 Powell PP 173, abridged with special introduction by Ackerman. Fine condition, collectible. ". Edison's Conquest of Mars (first appeared 12 January-10 February 1898 New York Evening Journal as "The Conquest of Mars" [see Checklist for further details]; 1947; cut vt Forrest J. Ackerman Presents Invasion of Mars 1969), which is set a few years further into the Near Future, quite remarkably captures the ebullient US spirit of the time, its sense of innocent entitlement. Thomas Alva Edison himself (see also Edisonade) is the protagonist. The Martians have duly perished of bacteria (as described in Wells's original), though a few survivors had devastated New York in the immense wash of their escaping rocket; the world as a whole resembles Post-Holocaust landscapes from later sf. Astronomers soon detect signs that the Martians are preparing to invade again. In response, Edison invents a flying machine capable of doubling as a Spaceship, powered by an Antigravity device which is also his Invention; at the same time, he invents a new Weapon, a disintegrator Ray that will prove useful in the forthcoming Invasion of Mars, to be launched under his command by the unanimous wish ? in deference to America's unquestioned primacy ? of all the nations of the world. One hundred armoured ships are constructed, and the armada, crewed by the world's most famous Scientists, takes off. En route the crew enjoys realistically-depicted space walks in vacuum (Edison has invented a workable space suit); endure a meteor strike; enjoy a stop-over on the Moon, where they discover evidences of an extinct race of giants (see Great and Small); and engage with Martian spaceships in a very early rendering of Space Opera combat. In all of this, Serviss's grasp of astronomy helps him convey a palpable Sense of Wonder, which if anything deepens after the armada lands on Mars itself, where the canals envisioned by Giovanni Schiaparelli (1835-1910) can be observed weaving intricately, from sea to Schiaparellian sea, across the numerous, roseate continents (see Planetary Romance). After much conflict, during which one commander repeatedly confuses Martians and American Indians (see Colonization of Other Worlds), the narrator of the tale (Professor Serviss) helps rescue a human woman, the sole surviving descendant of a group of humans abducted 9,000 years earlier from the Vale of Cashmere (see Lost Race) during an earlier Martian invasion. She speaks both Martian and Aryan ? the latter described by Serviss as the original human language (see Linguistics; Scientific Errors) ? and helps Edison arrange the malfunction of a great dam, which results in a genocidal flood and the end of Martian civilization, though the few survivors will be offered colonial status." [JC/MJE] - The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction - 3rd Ed./Internet.
Published by Dover Publications Inc., New York, 2018
ISBN 10: 0486825604ISBN 13: 9780486825601
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Hailed as the founder of modern science fiction, H. G. Wells (18661946) wrote a brilliant succession of novels and short stories that remain in the first rank of the genre. In fantasies made credible by their simple realism, his enduringly relevant tales gave symbolic expression to the ideas and anxieties of his era. This collection contains the best of H. G. Wells's science-fiction short stories: favorites like "The Crystal Egg," "Aepyornis Island," "The Strange Orchid," "The Man Who Could Work Miracles," "A Dream of Armageddon," "The Sea Raiders," and other tales about fourth-dimensional adventure, biological monstrosities, marvelous inventions, time distortions, cosmic catastrophe, and other intriguing events. In addition to these 17 short stories, this anthology features the novel The Invisible Man in its entirety. One of Wells's most popular stories, it offers both a serious study of egotism as well as a first-rate science-fiction thriller. AUTHOR: A pioneer of science fiction, H. G. Wells (18661946) wrote thrilling adventures about time travel, space exploration, alien invasion, and scientific experiments gone awry. His tales of obsession, revelation, and discovery remain compellingly readable and relevant. Complete text of "The Invisible Man" plus 17 short stories, including "The Crystal Egg," "Aepyornis Island," "The Strange Orchid," "The Man Who Could Work Miracles," and "A Dream of Armageddon." Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by Ernest Benn Ltd, 1927
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Condition: Fair. 1927. Essex Edition. 228 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth boards with lettering. Clean pages with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpaper and pastedowns. Pen inscription to front pastedown. Front free endpaper is missing. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Lettering is bright and clear. Minor sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Visible wear marks to boards.
Published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, 2018
ISBN 10: 1719298904ISBN 13: 9781719298902
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Published by Alpha Editions, 2023
ISBN 10: 9357912649ISBN 13: 9789357912648
Seller: PBShop.store US, Wood Dale, IL, U.S.A.
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