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"Mientras me siento a escribir aquí, en medio de las sombras de las hojas de parra bajo el cielo azul del sur de Italia, me doy cuenta, no sin cierto asombro, de que mi participación en estas asombrosas aventuras del señor Cavor fue, despues de todo, el resultado del mas puro accidente. Podria haber sido cualquiera."En esta novela, una de las mas aclamadas del maestro de la ciencia ficcion, H.G. Wells, encontramos el relato del viaje a la Luna que emprenden sus dos protagonistas, Bedford y Cavor. Siendo muy diferentes entre si, (el señor Bedford es un empresario arruinado, un hombre pragmatico que se ha retirado al campo con la intencion de escribir una obra de teatro, mientras que el Dr. Cavor es un brillante a la par que excentrico cientifico, un hombre siempre perdido en su mundo interior), juntos forman un duo brillante para emprender una aventura.Deciden viajar a la Luna, gracias a que el Dr. Cavor logra inventar la "favorita", una sustancia anti-gravitatoria compuesta de helio y metales fundidos, con la que consiguen recubrir la nave espacial que los llevara, una vez superadas las primeras dificultades y fracasos, hasta el hasta ahora inexplorado satelite terrestre.En su destino se encontraran con una civilizacion extraterrestre, a los que bautizaran como "selenitas", seres organizados en una ferrea estructura jerarquica propia de un tiempo medieval, en la que cada habitante ha sido asignado de antemano una tarea a desempeñar.De esta forma, Wells, en vez de recurrir para su investigacion a la hora de crear una historia creible a los escasos y tampoco muy fiables datos tecnicos y cientificos que se conocian en la epoca acerca de la Luna, prefiere crear un escenario de fantasia mas propicio para una novela de aventuras.Ademas de las aventuras de los humanos y selenitas, este relato contiene una de las reflexiones constantes en su literatura: hasta donde el individualismo humano resulta tan peligroso como el colectivismo totalitario, tendencias y actitudes representadas con los distintos personajes y sus conflictos internos.

Herbert George Wells, más conocido como H. G. Wells, es famoso por sus novelas de ciencia ficción y es considerado junto a Julio Verne, uno de los precusores de este género. Sus novelas fueron la inspiracion del ingeniero aeroespacial Wernher von Braun, quien decidio en honor al escritor llamar H. G. Wells a un astroblema lunar ubicado en la cara oculta de la luna. Esta obra contiene: El huevo de cristal, La estrella, Una historia de la edad de piedra, una historia de tiempos futuros y El hombre que podia hacer milagros,

« Je voyais maintenant que c'étaient les créatures les moins terrestres qu'il soit possible de concevoir. Ils étaient formés d'un grand corps rond, ou plutôt d'une grande tête ronde d'environ quatre pieds de diamètre et pourvue d'une figure. Cette face n'avait pas de narines - à vrai dire les Martiens ne semblent pas avoir été doués d'un odorat - mais possédait deux grands yeux sombres, au-dessous desquels se trouvait immédiatement une sorte de bec cartilagineux. [...] En groupe autour de la bouche, seize tentacules minces, presque des lanières, étaient disposés en deux faisceaux de huit chacun. Depuis lors, avec assez de justesse, le professeur Stowes, le distingué anatomiste, a nommé ces deux faisceaux des mains. »

This extraordinary work, which has become a classic of its time, recounts 'the great adventure of mankind. H. G. Wells tells the story of the entire history of our planet, from the beginnings of the Earth to the end of the First World War, a seemingly daunting feat, but one which his storytelling and journalistic skills transform into a work that is not only accessible, but readable, radical and funny. Wells's liberal world-view and profound concern with the importance of ideas in history - political, religious, philosophical and technological - gives A Short History of the World an urgency and vigour that makes it as fresh today as when it was first published in 1922.

"A ilha do Dr. Moreau" é uma obra clássica de ficção científica, escrita por H. G. Wells e publicada originalmente em 1896, levando-nos a uma jornada perturbadora e filosófica através de uma ilha rem

When a Victorian scientist propels himself into the year 802,701 AD, he is initially delighted to find that suffering has been replaced by beauty, contentment and peace. Entranced at first by the Eloi, an elfin species descended from man, he soon realises that this beautiful people are simply remnants of a once-great culture now weak and childishly afraid of the dark. They have every reason to be afraid: in deep tunnels beneath their paradise lurks another race descended from humanity the sinister Morlocks. And, when the scientist''s time machine vanishes, it becomes clear he must search these tunnels, if he is ever to return to his own era.

Herbert George Wells was perhaps best known as the author of such classic works of science fiction as The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds. But it was in his short stories, written when he was a young man embarking on a literary career, that he first explored the enormous potential of the scientific discoveries of the day. He described his stories as "a miscellany of inventions," yet his enthusiasm for science was tempered by an awareness of its horrifying destructive powers and the threat it could pose to the human race. A consummate storyteller, he made fantastic creatures and machines entirely believable; and, by placing ordinary men and women in extraordinary situations, he explored, with humor, what it means to be alive in a century of rapid scientific progress.

When a Victorian scientist propels himself into the year 802,701 AD, he is initially delighted to find that suffering has been replaced by beauty, contentment and peace. Entranced at first by the Eloi, an elfin species descended from man, he soon realises that this beautiful people are simply remnants of a once-great culture - now weak and childishly afraid of the dark.They have every reason to be afraid: in deep tunnels beneath their paradise lurks another race descended from humanity - the sinister Morlocks. And when the scientist's time machine vanishes, it becomes clear he must search these tunnels, if he is ever to return to his own era.

The Time Machine is an 1895 dystopian post-apocalyptic science fiction novella by H. G. Wells about a Victorian scientist known as the Time Traveller who travels approximately 802,701 years into the future. The work is generally credited with the popularization of the concept of time travel by using a vehicle or device to travel purposely and selectively forward or backward through time. The term "time machine", coined by Wells, is now almost universally used to refer to such a vehicle or device.Utilizing a frame story set in then-present Victorian England, Wells text focuses on a recount of the otherwise anonymous Time Travellers journey into the far future. A work of future history and speculative evolution, The Time Machine is interpreted in modern times as a commentary on the increasing inequality and class divisions of Wells era, which he projects as giving rise to two separate human species: the fair, childlike Eloi, and the savage, simian Morlocks, distant descendants of the contemporary upper and lower classes respectively. It is believed that Wells depiction of the Eloi as a race living in plenitude and abandon was inspired by the utopic romance novel News from Nowhere (1890), though Wells universe in the novel is notably more savage and brutal.

Este livro é de ficção científica, aliás, o primeiro livro de ficção que realmente virou um sucesso, mesmo escrito no século XIX ainda exerce um fascínio fantástico na mente dos homens. Pessoas com m

Sempre gostei do gênero de ficção científica porque por meio dela damos asas a nossa imaginação sobre o que especulamos sobre o futuro em termos de avanço científico e principalmente sob a perspectiv

The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells. It was written between 1895 and 1897, and serialised in Pearsons Magazine in the UK and Cosmopolitan magazine in the US in 1897. The full novel was first published in hardcover in 1898 by William Heinemann. The War of the Worlds is one of the earliest stories to detail a conflict between humankind and an extraterrestrial race. The novel is the first-person narrative of an unnamed protagonist in Surrey and his younger brother who escapes to Tillingham in Essex as London and Southern England are invaded by Martians. It is one of the most commented-on works in the science fiction canon.The plot is similar to other works of invasion literature from the same period and has been variously interpreted as a commentary on the theory of evolution, imperialism, and Victorian era fears, superstitions and prejudices. Wells later noted that inspiration for the plot was the catastrophic effect of European colonisation on the Aboriginal Tasmanians. Some historians have argued that Wells wrote the book to encourage his readership to question the morality of imperialism. At the time of publication, it was classified as a scientific romance, like Wellss earlier novel, The Time Machine.

IMAGINE THE POWER OF BEING INVISIBLE AND THE TERRIFYING COST OF NEVER BEING SEEN AGAINThe Invisible Man by H.G. Wells is a gripping exploration of science and moralitys boundaries. The story follows Griffin, a scientist who discovers the formula for invisibility, only to realize that the gift of being unseen is a curse. Isolated and increasingly consumed by his ambition, Griffin wreaks havoc and fear upon a quiet English village. As his humanity slips away, he becomes a ghost of himself, willing to go to any lengths to protect his secret even if it means a dark, lonely descent into his own undoing.

Tales of Space and Time, A collection of short stories: "The Crystal Egg", "The Star", "A Story of the Stone Age", "A Story of the Days to Come"& "The Man who could Work Miracles"Some Books of Wells:The War of the Worlds (1898)The Time Machine (1895)A Modern Utopia (1905)The Invisible Man (1897)The Island of Dr. Moreau (1896)The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth (1904)The Sleeper Awakes (1910)The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost (1902)The First Men in the Moon (1901)A Dream of Armageddon (1901)

Publicada originalmente em 1898, A guerra dos mundos é considerada uma das obras fundadoras da ficção científica moderna. O romance de H.G. Wells relata uma invasão da Terra por alienígenas de Marte