H .G. WELLS (19 BOOKS)

H .G. WELLS Herbert George Wells was a product of his time – the son of a servant, he studied the sciences at university and became both a popular writer and an influential socialist intellectual with a moderately scandalous list of affairs with women. Most of his science fiction dates from early in his career – in a few short years, he invented many of the obsessional tropes of the genre from The Time Machine to contact with hostile aliens (in The War of the Worlds and The First Men in the Moon) to suspended animation (in The Sleeper Awakes) and the temporary uplift of animals to sapience (in The Island of Doctor Moreau). In almost all of these cases, he creates at once a satirical comment on some trend in contemporary society – class division, imperialism and so on – and a powerful poetic myth that transcends any immediate satiric content; when we think of the effete Eloi and subterranean Morlocks in The Time Machine, it is not just of aristocrats and proletarians that we think. Like Verne, he was occasionally fond of comic stereotypes – Wells almost singlehandedly crystallized the figure of the impractical comic scientist (in The First Men in the Moon), as he did that of the scientist so ruthless as to be on the edge of sanity (in The Invisible Man and The Island of Doctor Moreau). Unlike Verne, and perhaps because he had a solid scientific background, he did not fetishize scientific accuracy and used scientific ideas as story germs and for verisimilitude. Most of his later novels have no sf content, (while being novels of ideas in precisely the same way as his sf novels), the exceptions being various utopian fictions like In the Days of the Comet and terrible warnings like The War in the Air. Wells's political evolution was from an optimist who believed in casual eugenic slaughter to a pessimist who cultivated humane virtues. Bibliography: http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/authors/H_G_Wells.htm 1866 - 1946 Biography 1895 - The Time Machine 1896 - The Island of Dr. Moreau 1896 - The Wheels of Chance 1897 - The Invisible Man 1898 - The War of The Worlds 1899 - When the Sleeper Wakes 1901 - First Men in the Moon 1903 - Twelve Stories and a Dream 1908 - Tono-Bungay 1908 - The War in the Air 1909 - Ann Veronica - A Modern Love Story 1911 - Door in the Wall and Other Stories 1911 - The New Machiavelli 1914 - The World Set Free 1915 - The Research Magnificent 1917 - God The Invisble King 1917 - The Soul of a Bishop 1917 - War and the Future 1922 - The Secret Places af teh Heart D/L: http://rapidshare.de/files/3989009/Wells__H.G..rar.html PWD: npo33770 Enjoy it npo33770