Bibliography Etc. on H. G. Wells
(1866-1946)

Primary Works (Related to SF)
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1895 The Time Machine (Scientific Romance)
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The Wonderful Visit
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The Stolen Bacillus (SS) (Scientific Romance)
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1896 The Island of Dr. Moreau (Scientific Romance)
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1897 The Invisible Man (Scientific Romance)
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1898 The War of the Worlds (Serialized 1996-7; Broadcast by Orson
Wells Oct. 1938) (Scientific Romance)
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Tales of Space and Time (SS) (Scientific Romance)
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1899 When the Sleeper Wakes (Utopia/Dystopia) --Man awakes in
2100; his money has accumulated interest until he owns most of the world
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1901The First Men in the Moon (Utopia/Dystopia) --Antigravity
and life on the moon
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Anticipations of the Reactions of Mechanical and Scientific Progress
Upon Human Life and Thought (Non-Fict)
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The Discovery of the Future (Non-Fict)
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1902 The Sea Lady: A Tissue of Moonshine (Fantasy)
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1903 Mankind in the Making (Non-Fict)
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1904 The Food of the Gods, and How It Came to Earth (Utopia/Dystopia)
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New food cause people to grow to giant size, but is popular resistance
to growth
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1905 A Modern Utopia(Utopia/Dystopia)
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1906 In the Days of the Comet(Utopia/Dystopia) -- Mysterious
gases of passing comet cause moral regeneration of the world
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The Future in America (Non-Fict)
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1908 The War in the Air(Utopia/Dystopia) -- Foretells the use
of airplanes to bomb targets on the ground
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1911 The Country of the Blind (SS) (Scientific Romance)
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The Door in the Wall (SS)
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1914 The World Set Free: A Story of Mankind (Utopia/Dystopia)
--Atomic bombs followed by chaos followed by rational society
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The War That Will End War (Non-Fict)
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1920 The Outline of History (Non-Fict)
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1923 Men Like Gods(Utopia/Dystopia) -- Time-travel to a future
utopia
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1933 The Shape of Things to Come (Utopia/Dystopia) (Wells wrote
film scenario for 1935 movie) Fictional continuation of world history to
2016; including war, period of anti-scientism, final rational end
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1937 Star-Begotten: A Biological Fantasia (Utopia/Dystopia) --
novel, science fiction, utopia, genetic engineering, posthuman, future
"A time when men will resist the established order... A time when men will
no longer fight wars... A time of compromise and consolidation... A time
of peace... "Such is the future H.G.Wells predicts for humanity -- a new
life for new men begotten by an unseen race beyond the stars. And this
Utopia is preceded by a period of chaotic transition, amazingly like the
headlines of today". [jacket blurb, UK, 1975] <http://euro.net/mark-space/HGWells.html>
Criticism on The Time Machine
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Bergonzi, Bernard. "The Time Machine: An Ironic Myth." (1960)
Rpt. in H.G. Wells: A Collection of Critical Essays, ed. Bernard
Bergonzi. (Twentieth Century Views) Prentice-Hall, 1976.
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Huntington, John. Chapter 3 of The Logic of Fantasy: H.G. Wells and
Science Fiction. NY: Columbia UP, 1982
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Philmus, Robert M. "The Logic of 'Prophecy' in The Time Machine."
(1969) Rpt. in H.G. Wells: A Collection of Critical Essays, ed.
Bernard Bergonzi. (Twentieth Century Views) Prentice-Hall, 1976.
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Roberts, Robin. pp. 32-37 in A New Species: Gender and Science in
Science Fiction. Chicago: U of Illinois P, 1993.
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