Ebook Collection Tales of Space and Time
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E-Book
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Science Fiction/Fantaisie
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Publication Year
1900
Publisher
Feedbooks, France, Metropolitan
Pages
71,304 words
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English Ebook C2
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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"
"The Crystal Egg" tells of a shop owner, named Mr. Cave, who finds a strange crystal egg that serves as a window into the planet Mars.
"The Star" In January (about 1900, presumably), the people of Earth awaken to the news that a strange luminous object has erupted, into the Solar System, after disturbing the normal orbit of the planet Neptune. The object is a celestial body whose luminosity is distinguishable on the sky about the constellation of Leo.
"A Story of the Stone Age" is set during the Stone Age, and tells of a caveman named Ugh-lomi, who bonds with the young woman Eudena and kills his rival, the de facto tribal leader Uya. Whilst in exile, Ugh-lomi becomes the first man to ride a horse, and to combine stone and wood to fashion an axe. He uses this weapon, along with his wits, to survive encounters with cave bears, hyenas and rhinos, and ultimately claim the position of tribal leader for himself.
"A Story of the Days to Come" The novella depicts two lovers in a dystopian future London of the 22nd century and explores the implications of excessive urbanisation, class warfare, and advances in the technology of medicine, communication, transportation, and agriculture. Like When the Sleeper Wakes, published in the same year, the novella extrapolate the trends Wells observed in nineteenth-century Victorian London two hundred years into the future.
"The Man who could Work Miracles" the story places a major fantasy premise (a wizard with enormous, virtually unlimited magic power) not in an exotic semi-Medieval setting but in the drab routine daily life of suburban London, very familiar to Wells himself.
"The Crystal Egg" tells of a shop owner, named Mr. Cave, who finds a strange crystal egg that serves as a window into the planet Mars.
"The Star" In January (about 1900, presumably), the people of Earth awaken to the news that a strange luminous object has erupted, into the Solar System, after disturbing the normal orbit of the planet Neptune. The object is a celestial body whose luminosity is distinguishable on the sky about the constellation of Leo.
"A Story of the Stone Age" is set during the Stone Age, and tells of a caveman named Ugh-lomi, who bonds with the young woman Eudena and kills his rival, the de facto tribal leader Uya. Whilst in exile, Ugh-lomi becomes the first man to ride a horse, and to combine stone and wood to fashion an axe. He uses this weapon, along with his wits, to survive encounters with cave bears, hyenas and rhinos, and ultimately claim the position of tribal leader for himself.
"A Story of the Days to Come" The novella depicts two lovers in a dystopian future London of the 22nd century and explores the implications of excessive urbanisation, class warfare, and advances in the technology of medicine, communication, transportation, and agriculture. Like When the Sleeper Wakes, published in the same year, the novella extrapolate the trends Wells observed in nineteenth-century Victorian London two hundred years into the future.
"The Man who could Work Miracles" the story places a major fantasy premise (a wizard with enormous, virtually unlimited magic power) not in an exotic semi-Medieval setting but in the drab routine daily life of suburban London, very familiar to Wells himself.
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Biblio Notes
Language: English
Published in: 1900
Word count: 71,304 words (≈ about 5 hours)
Source: http://www.gutenberg.org
Published in: 1900
Word count: 71,304 words (≈ about 5 hours)
Source: http://www.gutenberg.org
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