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H G Wells is one of the 'fathers' of Science Fiction. His novel
'The First Men in the Moon' chronicles humanity's first faltering
steps to the stars. The story uses a human-meets-alien adventure to
juxtapose two characters whose temperaments personify the extremes
of scientific endeavour - the disinterested researcher and the
seeker after fame and fortune. Wells' description of spaceflight,
including weightlessness, low-gravity gymnastics on the moon and
re-entry angles for returning spacecraft, have all proved amazingly
prescient. His books have retained their popularity with the public
for more than a century.
Published in 1898 and never out of print since that time, 'The War
of the Worlds' is one of the most influential science fiction
novels ever written, and the seminal work for all the many 'alien
invasion' tales that have followed. The amazing products of Wells'
prodigious imagination - death rays, mobile weapons-platforms,
flying machines (all unheard of in his day) - have proved
wonderfully, and hideously, prophetic. Given today's advances in
space exploration and the discovery of earth-like planets orbiting
other stars, the author's vision of evil, conquering aliens
continues to strike a chord of terror in modern minds.
Including Practical Geometry, Plane And Solid, And Machine And
Engine Drawing And Design.
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