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He has won three Bram Stoker Awards, two World Fantasy Awards, and the British Fantasy Award. He lives in New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"H. G. Wells","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45735632666852,"sku":"9780553214321","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0611\/9587\/8628\/files\/9780553214321.jpg?v=1779786926"},{"product_id":"the-invisible-man-a-grotesque-romance-h-g-wells-paperback","title":"The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance -- H. G. Wells, Paperback","description":"A gripping and entertaining tale of terror and suspense as well as a potent Faustian allegory of hubris and science run amok, \u003ci\u003eThe Invisible Man\u003c\/i\u003e endures as one of the signature stories in the literature of science fiction. A brilliant scientist uncovers the secret to invisibility, but his grandiose dreams and the power he unleashes cause him to spiral into intrigue, madness, and murder. The inspiration for countless imitations and film adaptations, \u003ci\u003eThe Invisible Man\u003c\/i\u003e is as remarkable and relevant today as it was a hundred years ago. As Arthur C. Clarke points out in his Introduction, \"The interest of the story . . . lies not in its scientific concepts, but in the brilliantly worked out development of the theme of invisibility. If one could be invisible, then what?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e H. G. 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Clarke\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of more than sixty works of science fiction, including \u003ci\u003e2001: A Space Odyssey and Childhood's End\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Colombo, Sri Lanka.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"H. G. Wells","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46120279572708,"sku":"9780812966459","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0611\/9587\/8628\/files\/9780812966459.jpg?v=1741033634"},{"product_id":"selected-stories-of-h-g-wells-h-g-wells-paperback","title":"Selected Stories of H. G. Wells -- H. G. Wells, Paperback","description":"\u003cb\u003eUrsula K. Le Guin's selection of twenty-six stories showcases H. G. Wells's genius and reintroduces readers to his singular talent for making the unbelievable seem utterly plausible.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e He envisioned a sky filled with airplanes before Orville Wright ever left the ground. He described the spectacle of space travel decades before men set foot on the moon. H. G. Wells was a visionary, a man of science with an enduring literary touch, and his originality and inventiveness are fully on display in this essential collection. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Wells imagined both dark and bright futures because his creed allowed both while promising neither, and because the eighty years of his life were years of immense intellectual and technological accomplishment and appalling violence and destruction.\"\u003cb\u003e--Ursula K. Le Guin, from the introduction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"Everything one imagines in the way of genius and fun.\"--Rebecca West \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIncluding these stories: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A Slip Under the Microscope\"\u003cbr\u003e \"The Remarkable Case of Davidson's Eyes\"\u003cbr\u003e \"The Plattner Story\"\u003cbr\u003e \"Under the Knife\"\u003cbr\u003e \"The Crystal Egg\"\u003cbr\u003e \"The New Accelerator\"\u003cbr\u003e \"The Stolen Body\"\u003cbr\u003e \"The Argonauts of the Air\"\u003cbr\u003e \"In the Abyss\"\u003cbr\u003e \"The Star\"\u003cbr\u003e \"The Land Ironclads\"\u003cbr\u003e \"A Dream of Armageddon\"\u003cbr\u003e \"The Lord of the Dynamos\"\u003cbr\u003e \"The Valley of Spiders\"\u003cbr\u003e \"The Story of the Late Mr. Elvesham\"\u003cbr\u003e \"The Man Who Could Work Miracles\"\u003cbr\u003e \"The Magic Shop\"\u003cbr\u003e \"Mr. Skelmersdale in Fairyland\"\u003cbr\u003e \"The Door in the Wall\"\u003cbr\u003e \"The Presence by the Fire\"\u003cbr\u003e \"A Vision of Judgment\"\u003cbr\u003e \"The Story of the Last Trump\"\u003cbr\u003e \"The Wild Asses of the Devil\"\u003cbr\u003e \"Answer to Prayer\"\u003cbr\u003e \"The Queer Story of Brownlow's Newspaper\"\u003cbr\u003e \"The Country of the Blind\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e H. 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He began to sell articles and short stories regularly in 1893. In 1895, his immediately successful novel rescued him from a life of penury on a schoolteacher's salary. His other \"scientific romances\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Island of Dr. Moreau\u003c\/i\u003e (1896), \u003ci\u003eThe Invisible Man \u003c\/i\u003e(1897), \u003ci\u003eThe War of the Worlds \u003c\/i\u003e(1898), \u003ci\u003eThe First Men in the Moon\u003c\/i\u003e (1901), and \u003ci\u003eThe War in the Air \u003c\/i\u003e(1908)--won him the distinction as the father of science fiction. Henry James saw in Wells the most gifted writer of the age, but Wells, having coined the phrase \"the war that will end war\" to describe World War I, became increasingly disillusioned and focused his attention on educating mankind with his bestselling \u003ci\u003eOutline of History\u003c\/i\u003e (1920) and his later utopian works. 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