Tag: Wells
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The Time Machine: Then and Now
It’s been about fifteen years since I first read The Time Machine.Β It was so unlike anything I’d read before.Β Afterwards, I even wrote my own time-travelling story, which was more like fan-fiction than anything else. I don’t often reread books, but as I build my H. G. Wells collection, I figured I’d reread each […]
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“Humanzees” and The Island of Doctor Moreau – Episode 21
A magazine article provoked me to re-read H. G. Well’s sci-fi horror classic, The Island of Doctor Moreau. Join my trip back in time as I talk about a Soviet scientist, a British author, and human-chimpanzee people. Sources / Further Reading:“Itβs Time to Make Human-Chimp Hybrids” by David BarashArticles referencing Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov: Smithsonian Magazine […]
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The Moon, a Violent Frontier
Previously there occurred to me an idea for a post (since scrapped), called something like “H.G. Wells, Master of Humor and Pathos.”Β The gist of it, which I saw again in The First Men in the Moon*, is his unique knack for combining both emotions to pull you into the scientific-adventure plots.Β Though having enjoyed […]