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  1. The New World Order by H.G. Wells, 2008-11-04
  2. The Novels of H.G. Wells (15+1 Books Collection) by Herbert George Wells, 2010-07-01
  3. Classic Starts: The War of the Worlds (Classic Starts Series) by H. G. Wells, 2007-02-01
  4. The War of the Worlds (Aladdin Classics) by H.G. Wells, 2005-05-17
  5. Tono Bungay by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells, 2009-10-04
  6. The War of the Worlds - Literary Touchstone edition by H.G. Wells, 2006-05-01
  7. The Essential H. G. Wells Collection (38 books and story collections) by H. G. Wells, 2009-07-15
  8. The outline of history: being a plain history of life and mankind by H. G. Wells, 1920-01-01
  9. The Time Machine (Graphic Revolve) by Wells, H.G., 2007-09-01
  10. Boon by H. G. Wells, 2009-10-01
  11. THE SCIENCE OF LIFE. by H. G. and HUXLEY, Julian S. WELLS, 1931
  12. The Time Machine and War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells, 2002-03
  13. The Outline of History - New Century Edition with DirectLink Technology by H.G Wells, 2010-06-16
  14. The Complete Science Fiction Treasury of H. G. Wells by H.G. Wells, 1991-06-24

61. HG Wells On The World Brain
Publishers piece, George Dyson sent me this great piece from HG wells. I already reposted it to the comments on that blog, but this is enough of a relevant
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62. H. G. Wells
British author Herbert George wells (18661946) was perhaps the true father of science fiction . Everyone knows of his early SF novels The Time Machine
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Biographical notes by Blake Wilfong "The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn." British author Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) was perhaps the true "father of science fiction". Everyone knows of his early SF novels The Time Machine The Island of Doctor Moreau The Invisible Man (1897), and The War of the Worlds (1898). But unlike Jules Verne before him, Wells also crafted many superb short science fiction storiesforeshadowing the form the genre would take in pulp magazines decades later. And the vitality and unrestrained imagination of Wells' writings makes them more readable today than Verne's. Wells was born in Bromley, Kent, to lower-middle-class parents. Despite grave financial difficulties and a poor early education, Wells earned a Bachelor of Science degree, with honors, in zoology and geology from the University of London in 1890. This scientific background would prove invaluable to his writing, though he was already producing science fiction as he worked toward his degree. In 1888, he published The Chronic Argonauts (an early draft of The Time Machine ) in the Science Schools Journal Wells also went on to write many historical volumes, literary novels and scientific texts, all of which he considered more important than his science fiction. Ironically, they are virtually forgotten today.

63. H. G. Wells Quotes
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64. The My Hero Project - H.G. Wells
H.G. wells is my hero. He was a fantastic writer and very descriptive. His books inspired me to write stories of my own. He wrote sciencefiction novels,
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65. Wells
What can you say about H. G. wells. He has one of the most legitimate claims to the often bestowed title Father of Science Fiction .
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H. G. Wellls Wells, H(erbert) G(eorge) (1866-1946), English author, broadcaster, political philosopher and public figure, wrote and spoke on a wide range of subjects but is, perhaps, most famous for his science-fantasy novels with their prophetic depictions of the triumphs of technology as well as the horrors of 20th-century warfare. Wells was born September 21, 1866, in Bromley, (an outer London borough), and educated at the Normal School of Science in London, to which he won a scholarship. He worked as a draper's apprentice, bookkeeper, tutor, and journalist until 1895, when he became a full-time writer. Wells's 10-year relationship with Rebecca West produced a son, Anthony West, in 1914. Throughout his long life Wells was deeply concerned with and wrote voluminously about the survival of contemporary society. For a time he was a member of the Fabian Society . He envisioned a utopia in which the vast and frightening material forces available to modern men and women would be rationally controlled for progress and for the equal good of all. Some critics have said his later works were increasingly pessimistic and that the author was in despair at the end of his life. '42 to '44 (1944) castigated most world leaders of the period; Mind at the End of Its Tether (1945) expressed the author's doubts about the ability of humankind to survive. Not all commentators concur with this view (see the excellent 'H.G.: The History of Mr Wells', by Michael Foot). Wells also wrote An Experiment in Autobiography (1934). He died August 13, 1946, in London.

66. Education Quotes
H.G. wells. Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. posted by Jane @ 307 PM 0 Comments Links to this post
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67. H. G. Wells
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    Post Top ... murmac - H.G. Wells meets Orson Welles Orson Welles spoke with H.G. Wells during a 1940 interview following the Orson Welles radio production of War of the Worlds. You may still find the audio of this interview at
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    I don't think that H.G. would have got along well with the writers of the latest War of the Worlds movie...very bad, but good special effects. The George Pal version done in the 1950's was a much better movie, though it did have its flaws also. Admin Only: Edit posted by murmac Permalink Print Discussion Email Discussion ... Apr 28, 2006 8:04 AM
  • 68. Back To The Future - Times Online
    H. G. wells, BERTIE to his friends, was, with Jules Verne, the person who gave us the scientific romance. His short stories, and protoscience fiction
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    A hundred years after they were written, the science fiction stories of H. G. Wells remain readable and relevant, Neil Gaiman says
    H. G. WELLS, BERTIE to his friends, was, with Jules Verne, the person who gave us the scientific romance. His short stories, and proto-science fiction novels, are still read today, while many of the mainstream novels he considered more important and significant are gone and, for the most part, forgotten, perhaps because the novels were very much of their time, while some of the science fiction and fantasy novels and tales are, for all their late Victorian or Edwardian setting, quite timeless. The Invisible Man

    69. H.G. Wells's Land Ironclad
    Few science fiction works are as uncannily accurate in fortelling the future as a short story published in 1903 by H.G. wells.
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    Few science fiction works are as uncannily accurate in fortelling the future as a short story published in 1903 by H.G. Wells. It portrays a conflict remarkably similar to the trench warfare of the First World War, in which the two sides face each other across a no-man's land. Wells describes the invention that breaks the stalemate between the combatants an armoured, all-terrain vehicle that can withstand small-arms fire and cross trenches. We know these vehicles as tanks. Wells's name for his creations, and the title of his story, was The Land Ironclads Wells envisioned a huge, hundred-foot-long vehicle propelled by eight pairs of pedrails , wheels ringed with flexible feet to give traction. He also gave his vehicles innovative weapons: remotely controlled rifles with an advanced sighting system that gave tremendous accuracy even while moving. Diagram of land ironclad. Strictly confidential! Although the massive size of the land ironclad is in hindsight clearly impractical, in almost every other respect Wells accurately predicts the coming age of mechanized land warfare. This model builds into a detailed 1/110 scale (compatible with 15mm figures) replica of the land ironclad. The completed model is slightly over 10 inches in length. You will need a colour printer capable of handling card or cover stock to print the parts sheets. 67 lb cover stock (approx 8.5 thousandths of an inch or 0.2 mm thick) is recommended.

    70. H. G. Wells Criticism
    H. G. wells 1866–1946. (Full name Herbert George wells; also wrote under the pseudonyms Sosthenes Smith, Walker Glockenhammer, and Reginald Bliss) English
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    (Full name Herbert George Wells; also wrote under the pseudonyms Sosthenes Smith, Walker Glockenhammer, and Reginald Bliss) English novelist, short story and novella writer, essayist, lecturer, author of children's books, historian, autobiographer, and critic. The following entry provides criticism on Wells's short fiction from 1990 through 1999. For criticism of Wells's short fiction published prior to 1990, see SSC, Volume 6.
    INTRODUCTION
    Wells is best known as a major progenitor of modern science fiction who foretold the development of such present-day realities as atomic weaponry and chemical and global warfare. Several of Wells's short stories are acknowledged as classics in the fields of science fiction and fantasy and have profoundly influenced the course of both genres. Critics generally concur that the appeal of his work stems from his ability to introduce exotic or fantastic elements into mundane situations, which often arise from institutional social pressures.
    Biographical Information
    Wells was born into a lower-middle-class Cockney family in Bromley, Kent, a suburb of London. He was awarded a scholarship to London University and the Royal College of Science, where he studied zoology under noted biologist T. H. Huxley, who instilled in him a belief in social as well as biological evolution. After graduating from London University, Wells published his first nonfiction work

    71. H. G. Wells Quotes
    HG wells quotes, Searchable and browsable database of quotations with author and subject indexes. Quotes from famous political leaders, authors,
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    Letter "H" Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.
    Topic: Affliction
    Source: None
    Topic: Christianity
    Source: None The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf. It's almost a law.
    Topic: Golf
    Source: None Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.
    Topic: Heresy
    Source: None Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. Topic: History Source: None Go away... I'm alright. Topic: Last words Source: None Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. Topic: Miscellaneous Source: None 'Sesquippledan', he would say, 'Sesquippledan verboojuice". Topic: Miscellaneous Source: None Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. Topic: Miscellaneous Source: None Our true nationality is mankind. Topic: Nationalism Source: None Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life. Topic: Order Source: None Our true nationality is mankind.

    72. Author:Herbert George Wells - Wikisource
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    73. H G WELLS COPYRIGHT NOTE + INTRO + TABLE OF CONTENTS TO 'THE OPEN CONSPIRACY'
    Text of The Open Conspiracy (republished as What Are We To Do With Our Lives? ) by HG wells. His finished statement, he said, on the way the world should
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    THE OPEN CONSPIRACY
    by H. G. Wells
    Summary: 'The Open Conspiracy' was Wells' 'Blue print for a world revolution'; he regarded this book as his finished statement on the way the world ought to be ordered. Possibly he underestimated, or ignored, the fact that it is often in the interest of subsets of the human race to act against other subsets. Moreover the emphasis on religion seems odd, from a rationalist.
    Introduction: H. G. Wells (1866-1946) entirely by chance came across an application form to study under T. H. Huxley; after his education in London, and writing a biology textbook, he became a prolific writer of fiction, first gaining widespread fame with 'The Time Machine' in 1895; he wrote humorous novels based on his own life (The Wheels of Chance, Kipps..) and in 1900 published 'Anticipations of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress on Human Life and Thought' based on lectures at the Royal Institution, where Faraday and others had lectured.
    'This book states as plainly and clearly as possibly the essential ideas of my life, the perspective of my world. ... the subject of this book is the whole destiny of man..' 'If I could, I would put this book before every mind in the world. I would say, tell me where this is wrong, or tell me why you do not live after these principles. .. My idiom of thought may not be his. Will he forgive that for the sake of the substance I am putting before him? .. Will the reader at least try to understand before he refutes?'

    74. The War Of The Worlds
    Strangely enough, this was not the last time that a dramatized broadcast of H.G. wells War of the Worlds would be mistaken for an account of real events.
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    On October 30, 1938 CBS Radio was broadcasting the music of Ramon Raquello and his orchestra live from the Meridian Room at the Park Plaza in New York City. Suddenly a reporter from Intercontinental Radio News interrupted the broadcast to deliver an important announcement. Astronomers had just detected enormous blue flames shooting up from the surface of Mars.
    The broadcast returned to the music of Ramon Raquello, but soon it was interrupted again with more news. Now a strange meteor had fallen to earth, impacting violently on a farm near Grovers Mill, New Jersey. A reporter was soon on hand to describe the eerie scene around the meteor crater, and the broadcast now switched over to continuous coverage of this rapidly unfolding event.
    To the dismay of the terrified audience listening to the broadcast, the events around the Grovers Mill meteor crater rapidly escalated from the merely strange to the positively ominous. It turned out that the meteor was not a meteor. It was, in fact, some kind of spaceship from which a tentacled creature, presumably a Martian, soon emerged and blasted the on-lookers with a deadly heat-ray.
    The Martian sunk back into the crater, but reemerged soon afterwards housed inside a gigantic, three-legged death machine. The Martian quickly disposed of 7,000 armed soldiers surrounding the crater, and then it began marching across the landscape, soon joined by other Martians. The Martian invaders blasted people and communication lines with their heat-rays, while simultaneously releasing a toxic black gas against which gas masks proved useless.

    75. The Idea Of A League Of Nations By H. G. Wells
    H. G. wells, Chairman H. WICKHAM STEED, VISCOUNT GREY, GILBERT MURRAY, LIONEL CURTIS, J. A. SPENDER, WILLIAM ARCHER, Secretary, A. E. ZIMMERN,
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    A small group of qualified Englishmen have long been working toward Universal Peace from an angle of their own. Forming the League of Free Nations Association they have divided the principal problems among experts, for extended study, appraisal and suggestions for solution. These inquiries, eventually to be published in book form, will, in the Atlantic's belief, form a highly important treatise on World Peace; but, in the meantime, the group has united in the compilation of the following article, which may well serve as an introduction to all attempts at a League of Nations. The composite authorship of the paper is especially interesting, the names of the collaborators being,
    H. G. WELLS, Chairman
    H. WICKHAM STEED, VISCOUNT GREY, GILBERT MURRAY, LIONEL CURTIS, J. A. SPENDER, WILLIAM ARCHER, Secretary , A. E. ZIMMERN, VISCOUNT BRYCE
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    U NIFICATION of human affairs, to the extent at least of a cessation of war and a worldwide rule of international law, is no new idea; it can be traced through many centuries of history. It is found as an acceptable commonplace in a fragment, De Republica

    76. Mobipocket EBook: "H. G. Wells Collection" By H.G. Wells
    Presentation page of the ebook HG wells Collection by HG wells . Read it on your PC PDA or Smartphones Windows Mobile Blackberry Palm Symbian ( Nokia
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    78. The New World Order By HG Wells
    H. G. wells THE NEW WORLD ORDER Whether it is attainable, how it can be attained, and what sort of world a world at peace will have to be.
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    THE NEW WORLD ORDER

    Whether it is attainable, how it can be attained, and what sort of world a world at peace will have to be.
    First Published in January 1940.
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    1. THE END OF AN AGE
    2. OPEN CONFERENCE
    3. DISRUPTIVE FORCES
    4. CLASS-WAR
    5. UNSALTED YOUTH
    6. SOCIALISM UNAVOIDABLE 7. FEDERATION 8. THE NEW TYPE OF REVOLUTION 9. POLITICS FOR THE SANE MAN 10. DECLARATION OF THE RIGHTS OF MAN 11. INTERNATIONAL POLITICS 12. WORLD ORDER IN BEING 1 THE END OF AN AGE IN THIS SMALL BOOK I want to set down as compactly, clearly and usefully as possible the gist of what I have learnt about war and peace in the course of my life. I am not going to write peace propaganda here. I am going to strip down certain general ideas and realities of primary importance to their framework, and so prepare a nucleus of useful knowledge for those who have to go on with this business of making a world peace. I am not going to persuade people to say "Yes, yes" for a world peace; already we have had far too much abolition of war by making declarations and signing resolutions; everybody wants peace or pretends to want peace, and there is no need to add even a sentence more to the vast volume of such ineffective stuff. I am simply attempting to state the things we must do and the price we must pay for world peace if we really intend to achieve it. Until the Great War, the First World War, I did not bother very much about war and peace. Since then I have almost specialised upon this problem. It is not very easy to recall former states of mind out of which, day by day and year by year, one has grown, but I think that in the decades before 1914 not only I but most of my generation - in the British Empire, America, France and indeed throughout most of the civilised world - thought that war was dying out.

    79. SPACE.com -- Film Review: 'War Of The Worlds' Update Hits Home
    Tom Cruise and Dakota Fanning take shelter in War of the Worlds, a 2005 update of H.G. wells 1898 novel of war between aliens and humanity.
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    Filmmaker Steven Spielberg's update of the science fiction classic War of the Worlds , may be a popcorn adventure at heart, but its fight against invaders hits close to home. The modern version of science fiction writer H.G. Wells' 1898 classic novel, which pits an unsuspecting public against an unstoppable attack force from Mars, calls on terrorism fears to spread its message of survival and determination. With explosions galore - bring earplugs, you'll need them - and violence that never resorts to gore, Spielberg presents a stunning depiction of surprised alien aggression and humanity's seemingly ineffective defense. War of the Worlds , which opens in theaters today, follows blundering father Ray Ferrier (Tom Cruise) as he bears witness to the destruction of humanity at the hands - or tentacles - of towering, three-legged machines. He also must keep his daughter Rachel (Dakota Fanning) and defiant son Robbie (Justin Chatwin) alive on the harrowing trip between their Newark, New Jersey home and Boston, where safety supposedly awaits.

    80. H.G. Wells' "Little Wars"
    In future, this section will feature a tribute to British author and historian H.G. wells charming slim volume which laid the groundwork for hobby
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    "When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up."
    C.S. Lewis Little Wars
    H.G. Wells' Classic Victorian Wargame Book In future, this section will feature a tribute to British author and historian H.G. Wells' charming slim volume which laid the groundwork for hobby wargaming in 1913. Though the book was published ten years after the death of the Queen Empress, its concept of warfare is still quite Victorian, the instructive horrors of WWI still lying, as they did, a year or two in the future. In the meantime, here are some images of the Major General's own original-edition copies of Little Wars and its lesser-known companion volume Floor Games . The books measure 8.5 x 7" (18x22cm). And no, the Major General has no interest in selling either book
    The Major General's undying gratitude goes out to Dick Bosse of The Aldredge Bookstore in Dallas for finding these volumes.
    Richard Silvano's Little Wars - Victorian Era Wargame Rules site, features images of the rules section pages from Wells' book, complete with the wonderful marginal illustrations. Anyone with an interest in Little Wars (or just a sense of fun) owes it to himself to visit Richard's thoroughly charming Garden Wargaming website. Richard uses Wells' rules and Playmobil figures , for which he casts his own colonial-era accessories. Though still in its early stages, the site is already one of the most appealing miniatures sites on the Web.

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