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Penguin English Library
The Penguin English Library features the best novels in the English language. Get lost in the amazing stories, browse the Penguin English Library. |
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H.G. Wells was a professional writer and journalist, who published more than a hundred books, including novels, histories, essays and programmes for world regeneration. Wells's prophetic imagination was first displayed in pioneering works of science fiction, but later he became an apostle of socialism, science and progress. His controversial views on sexual equality and the shape of a truly developed nation remain directly relevant to our world today. He was, in Bertrand Russell's words, 'an important liberator of thought and action'.
Christopher Priest has won many awards for his writing, including the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction, the World Fantasy Award and the Arthur C. Clarke Award. His works include a hommage to Wells in The Space Machine.
Patrick Parrinder has written on H.G. Wells, science fiction, James Joyce and the history of the English novel. Since 1986 he has been Professor of English at the University of Reading.
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Of course, we've all heard and seen this many times since. But Wells was one of the first to show this and all later Science Fiction writers owe this to him.
You can criticise, of course. The Science is laughable, or at least seems so from a smug 21st century distance. It's easy to criticise with hindsight. Wells' strength as an author was that he could speculate, which is of course the basis of Sci-Fi. That some speculations were wrong was inevitable. And it doesn't detract from a great read. This should be read as a book of its time - a great book of its time.
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