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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. Many credit Wells as the father of the modern genre of science fiction. One needs to only learn these two tutors alone have produced several movies, TV shows, even radio. ( ) Personally, I enjoyed The Time Machine better than The War of the Worlds. I found that often Wells would divert the story onto a tangent more in War of the Worlds. The Time Machine was more straightforward and any tangents were more directly related to the main story. The War of the Worlds took entire chapters away from the main character to focus on a brother whose fate is never revealed. H.G. Wells pisses me off. I know these stories are classic, and I know he was writing in the 1890s, but does the narrator have to spend half of his time talking about how he's better than everyone else, and the other half fretting about humankind becoming less "manly"? Some of the short stories at the end (the "Connections") are clever, though. (They're also by other people.) inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
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The Time Machine, Wells' first novel (published in 1895) and The War Of The Worlds (1898), comprise two great firsts in the history of science fiction. Respectively, they were the first novels to center around time travel and the first to suggest intelligent extraterrestrial life and interplanetary invasion. The Time Machine When the Time Traveler boldly steeped out of his machine for the first time, he found himself in the far future and in an almost unrecognizable world. In another, more utopian age, creatures seemed to live together free of strife and competition. The Time Traveler thought he could learn the secrets of these happy beings and take the lessons of life to his own time - until he discovered that his marvelous invention, his only means of escape, had been stolen. The War of the Worlds "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 and yet as mortal as his own. . ." So begins The War of the Worlds, the novel that made Wells famous and has enthralled and terrified for almost 100 years. Ten huge and tireless creatures land in England and, using their deadly rays and crushing strength, threaten the very existence of humankind. Well's classic is not just groundbreaking science fiction, it is a shocking social parable about man's inhumanity to man. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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