H. G Wells
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Un alpinista llamado Núñez, en su intento por coronar el Parascotopetl, el Matterhorn de los Andes, resbala y cae al otro lado de la montaña. Al final de su descenso, encuentra un valle, aislado del resto del mundo por empinados precipicios. Nuñez descubre así el mítico "País de los Ciegos". El valle había sido refugio de colonos que huían de la tiranía de gobernantes. La comunidad aislada prosperó con los años, a pesar de una enfermedad...
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un cuento sobre los efectos de una droga capaz de llevar al corazón a 1000 latidos por minuto, a fin de acelerar el metabolismo y aprovechar el tiempo por la aceleración del pensamiento y movimiento humanos. Un profesor llamado Gibberne que en el año 1899 invento la droga.
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These literary masterpieces are made easy and interesting. This series features classic tales retold with color illustrations to introduce literature to struggling readers. Each 64-page softcover book retains key phrases and quotations from the original classics. Do UFO's really exist? Could creatures from another planet visit Earth? In The War of the Worlds they do exist and the visitors from the planet Mars come to Earth with not so friendly...
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These literary masterpieces are made easy and interesting. This series features classic tales retold with color illustrations to introduce literature to struggling readers. Each 64-page softcover book retains key phrases and quotations from the original classics. When a brilliant scientist discovers an invisibility formula, he turns to a life of crime- stealing and terrorizing the public. 64 pages, FC
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These literary masterpieces are made easy and interesting. This series features classic tales retold with color illustrations to introduce literature to struggling readers. Each 64-page softcover book retains key phrases and quotations from the original classics. What would it be like to travel thousands of years into the future? How would Earth have changed? Would people have changed too? Step aboard The Time Machine and journey to the year 802,701....
27) Die Zeitmaschine
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Dieser 1895 erschienene Klassiker der Science-Fiction-Literatur ist die erste literarische Beschreibung einer Zeitreise in die Zukunft, die mittels einer Zeitmaschine bewerkstelligt wird. Der Roman wurde mehrmals verfilmt.
Der Zeitreisende hat sich gegen Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts eine Maschine gebaut, mit deren Hilfe er sich in der vierten Dimension, der Zeit, bewegen kann. Bei seiner ersten Reise in die Zukunft erreicht er das Jahr 802.701. Dort...
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Herbert George Wells was an English writer. Prolific in many genres, he wrote dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, history, satire, biography, and autobiography. His work also included two books on recreational war games. Wells is now best remembered for his science fiction novels and is often called the "father of science fiction", along with Jules Verne.
During his own lifetime, however, he was most prominent as a forward-looking,...
29) The magic shop
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When Gip and his father visit a magic shop on a quiet London street, they are plunged into a strange and dark world where fantasy and reality become one and the same.
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The Last War erupts in Europe, rapidly escalating from bloody trench warfare and vicious aerial duels into a world-consuming atomic holocaust. Paris is engulfed by an atomic maelstrom, Berlin is an ever-flaming crater, and the cold waters of the North Sea roar past Dutch dikes and sweep across the Low Countries. Moscow, Chicago, Tokyo, London, and hundreds of other cities become radioactive wastelands. Governments topple, age-old cultural legacies...
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Herbert George Wells (September 21, 1866 - August 13, 1946), better known as H. G. Wells, was an English writer most famous today for his science fiction novels The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man, The First Men in the Moon and The Island of Dr Moreau. He was a prolific writer of both fiction and non-fiction, and produced works in many genres, including contemporary novels, history, and social commentary.
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Unique survivant d'un naufrage, Edward Prendick est secouru par Montgomery à bord d'un navire faisant route vers une île isolée avec une cargaison d'animaux. Montgomery se présente comme l'assistant d'un certain Docteur Moreau. Sur l'île, Prendick découvre avec effroi que les deux hommes se livrent à d'horribles expériences, greffant et modifiant des animaux pour leur apporte une conscience et la parole. Les « hommes-animaux » sont soumis...
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Un inventeur génial de l'époque victorienne construit une machine à voyager dans le temps et s'élance dans le futur jusqu'à l'an 802801. Il découvre un monde qui a les apparences d'un paradis. Les terriens du futur sont des petits êtres gracieux, doux et naïfs. Ils s'appellent les Éloïs et vivent dans une oisiveté uniquement troublée de terreur par l'obscurité. Car la nuit tombée, les terrifiants Morlocks surgissent des profondeurs de...
34) The Fate of Man
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In the design of this book three primary themes interlace and pursue and develop each other.There is first, that invention and science have completely altered the material environment ofhuman life. Next, that the disruptive driving force of an excess of bored and unemployed young men., which must in some manner find relief, will probably shatter human life altogether under the new conditions. And thirdly, that the existing mental organisation of our...
35) New World Order
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The New World Order – H.G. Wells. One of the central texts in explaining the psychopathic drive of elitists to enslave the world in a unified empire. H. G. Wells was an insider with a British group tasked with the revival of their once great empire-this time in conjunction with Venetian Black Nobility Khazar bankers (not mentioned this explicitly in the book). Wells evidently grew less sympathetic to their aims as time went on, and published a version...
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Un montañero llamado Núñez, en su intento por coronar el Parascotopetl, el Matterhorn de los Andes, resbala y cae por una ladera nevada. Al incorporarse comprueba aturdido que se encuentra en un valle aislado del resto del mundo por profundos precipicios, el País de los Ciegos. Los ancestros de sus habitantes huyeron de la represión española y una extraña enfermedad se propagó entre ellos, provocando que todos sus descendientes nacieran ciegos....
37) Floor Games
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This short work describes two games of imagination played out upon the floor of H G Wells home
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For Graham it was a blessed sleep in a stranger's armchair after countless nights of excruciating insomnia. For Isbister it was a duty owed to a broken man encountered accidentally on a cliff path. For Ostrog it was the fulfilment of his life's ambition. For humanity it was a stark choice. Slavery or freedom? After two centuries the Sleeper awakes. But does he bring with him the seeds of redemption or destruction?