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Tales of Space and Time (Paperback)
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Tales of Space and Time (Paperback)
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Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) was an English writer best
remembered today for his science fiction works. Wells and Jules
Verne are each sometimes referred to as "The Father of Science
Fiction." --- He has foretold many futures for us, some utterly
abhorrent, others more or less attractive... There was, for
example, "The Man Who Could Work Miracles" "his name was George
McWhirter; ... he was a little man and had eyes of a hot brown,
very erect red hair, a mustache with ends he twisted up, and
freckles." This unpromising looking individual, and he was a
blatant skeptic, too, becomes suddenly possessed of the power to
make anything happen that he wills, but he finds the use of this
mysterious gift by no means to his advantage. It brings him and
others into all sorts of trouble, and only his renunciation of it
saves the world from destruction. --- We shudder at the thought of
humanity being suffocated on a blazing world as in "The Star," ...
which is a little gem in its way without a superfluous word or a
false tone... Those were the days when Mr. Wells was writing for
pleasure. He was enabled to throw off in the early nineties a swift
succession of short stories astonishingly varied in style and
theme. As he became more experienced in the art of writing, or
rather of marketing manuscripts, he seems to have regretted this
youthful prodigality of bright ideas. Many of them he later worked
over on a more extensive scale as the metallurgist goes back to a
mine and with an improved process extracts more gold from the
tailings and dump than the miner got out of the ore originally. ---
In its power to forecast the future science finds both its
validation and justification. By this alone it tests its
conclusions and demonstrates its usefulness. In fact, the sole
object of science is prophecy... The mind of the scientific man is
directed forward and he has no use for history except as it gives
him data by which to draw a curve that he may project into the
future. It is, therefore, not a chance direction of his fancy that
so many of Wells's books, both romances and studies, deal with the
future. It is the natural result of his scientific training, which
not only led him to a rich unworked field of fictional motives, but
made him consider the problems of life from a novel and very
illuminative point of view. (Edwin E. Slosson)
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