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Wells, H. G., 1866-1946.
Birth name: Herbert George Wells.
English author best known for his early science fiction, a genre in which he is considered
a foundational writer. In such classic works as The Time Machine (1895), The Island of Doctor
Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), The War of the Worlds (1898) and The First
Men in the Moon (1901), he pioneered now commonplace SF themes like time travel, mad scientists,
uplift, alien invasion, antigravity and interplanetary travel. Nominated four times for the Nobel
Prize for Literature.
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The War of the Worlds. 1898.
A first-person account of a fictional invasion of nineteenth-century
Britain by intelligent inhabitants of Mars. The narrator decribes the initial astronomical detection of "explosions"
(rocket launches) on Mars, the landing of a Martian cylinder near Woking, Surrey, the emergence of the monstrous Martians,
and their constructions of towering war machines which proceed to ravage the countryside. Some people manage to evacuate
to Europe; others survive in hiding, to be gradually hunted down by the invaders. Ultimately the narrator, near madness, seeks
death by approaching one of the tripods, only to find its alien operators dead, killed by earthly pathogens. After recuperating he
returns to his former home, still shattered by what he has experienced.
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Apr. 4, 2018,
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Apr. 4, 2018.
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