“However, it is #HGWells, more than any other, who profoundly influenced #Renard with works such as The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), which depicts unnatural hybridisations between humans and animals, and The Time Machine (1895) …” aeon.co/essays/how-f...

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"At most terrestrial men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to
themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise. Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us."

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36

#WarOfTheWorlds #HGWells

C'est magnifiquement mis au goût du jour. Cela vous mettra dans un état de Rêverie immédiatement.
Un podcast, une dramatique sonore comme l'on disait avant, sur #FranceCulrure d'après l'œuvre de #HGWells
L'homme invisible....

A quotation from Orwell

Back in the nineteen-hundreds it was a wonderful experience for a boy to discover H. G. Wells. There you were, in a world of pedants, clergymen and golfers, with your future employers exhorting you to “get on or get out”, your parents systematically warping your sexual life, and your dull-witted schoolmasters sniggering over their Latin tags; and here was this wonderful man who could tell you about the inhabitants of the planets and the bottom of the sea, and who knew that the future was not going to be what respectable people imagined.

George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1941-08), “Wells, Hitler, and the World State,” Horizon

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/orwell-george/37598/

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H. G. Wells' 1897 novel The War of the Worlds, as illustrated by Henrique Alvim Corrêa.

https://imgur.com/gallery/h-g-wells-1897-novel-war-of-worlds-as-illustrated-by-henrique-alvim-corr-mmfT1CU

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Mercredi / Le Lieu Unique / More english books in stock :
H.G. Wells, An Englishman Looks at The World, Tauchnitz Edition, 1914.
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In the classic H.G. Wells novel The Time Machine, the time-hopping protagonist meets the Eloi, who live in a state of childish innocence. Everything they need is provided by invisible machinery. Maintained by the subterranean Morlocks, who eat the Eloi like farmed animals.

This is a wonderful metaphor for what hyperscale datacentres turned much of the net into.

#novels #SciFi #HGWells #TimeTravel #TheTimeMachine #DataFarming

Book reviews? Well... I read a book and wrote a few words about it.

#Reader #ReadingCommunity #ReaderSky
#SciFi #BookReview #BookSky
#HGWells #TheTimeMachine
#WhoNeedsABlog

https://cjpayling.wordpress.com/2025/05/16/who-needs-a-blog-with-book-reviews-the-time-machine/

The labor/working class are the Morlocks, partially blind now due to working in the mines. The Eloi are the bourgeoisie, not fully aware of what's about to hit them. It's that simple.

#TheTimeMachine #HGWells

J’essaierai quand-même de rattraper un peu le programme des ouvrages incontournables de #Barjavel – de #Dominik j’ai pratiquement tout lu de très jeune age, comme #KarlMay, quoi. Au risque de m’obnubiler la cervelle j’attaquerai donc les grands classiques : « Ravage », « La nuit des temps », « La tempête » et « Le grand secret », et il paraît que #Barjavel fai(sai)t partie du curriculum des collèges en France : ma copie du « Voyageur imprudent » (que j’ai acheté d’occasion) contient tout un dossier d’exercices, des extraits de #HGWells, #Asimov, #Orwell, #Huxley, #Zamiatine, #Bradbury et al., et un chapitre préparatoire à l’épreuve de français du Brevet. 2/2

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race. ~ #HGWells #quotes #bikes #bicycles #humanity

Bedtime Viewing 💤

The War of the Worlds (1953)

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A quotation from Wells

Even if one has been to the moon, one has still to earn a living.

H. G. Wells (1866-1946) British writer [Herbert George Wells]
The First Men in the Moon, ch. 21 (1901)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/wells-hg/76362/

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“ #Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient #citizenship as the ability to read and write.” - #HGWells

Can actually believe how three white people from the Victorian era wiped out an entire Lunar civilisation, HG Wells was quite the anti-colonialist.

#Monsterdon #HGWells

@bstacey @ramsey @Louisa fair play to the amount of Worldbuilding HG Wells did for his stories #Monsterdon #HGWells #Worldbuilding

I'm not following too closely but I'm getting a very #HGWells Time Machine but to the moon instead of time travel

#monsterdon