The first one-volume edition of the short stories of H.G.Wells - a total of 84 stories by one of the Great masters of the genre. Herbert George Wells - author of The Time Machine and the war of the worlds - was on of the founding-fathers of modern science fiction. But in his short stories, written when he was a young man embarking on a literary career, that he first explored the enormous potential of the scientific discoveries of his day. He described his stories as ' a miscellany of inventions ', yet his enthusiasm for science is tempered by an awareness of it's horrifying destructive power and the threat it could pose to the whole human race. A consummate story teller, he makes fantastical creatures and machines entirely believable; and by placing ordinary men and women in extroadinary situations he humorously explores what it means to be alive in a century of rapid scientific progress. At the close of the millennium, in the age of Dolly the sheep, Wells fin de Siecle vision is more pertinent than ever before.
- ISBN10 0713629711
- ISBN13 9780713629712
- Publish Date 29 October 1987 (first published September 1966)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 13 October 2000
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Imprint A & C Black Publishers Ltd
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 1038
- Language English