Resultados de ""H.G. Wells"" en Todas las categorias

Der wohlhabende Erfinder Monson hat alles riskiert, um eine revolutionäre Flugmaschine zu bauen. Jahrelang wird er verspottet, sein Projekt als „Monson's Folly" verhöhnt. Doch eines Tages wagt er den entscheidenden Schritt – und hebt tatsächlich ab. In Die Argonauten der Lüfte schildert H. G. Wells mit visionärer Kraft den Triumph und die Tragödie des technischen Fortschritts. Ein Stück literarischer Früh-Science-Fiction, das den Geist von Erfindung, Risiko und Opferbereitschaft einfängt – gelesen von Benjamin Werner.

When the proud entomologist Hapley destroys the reputation of his longtime nemesis, Professor Pawkins, the victory proves fatal — Pawkins dies shortly after the public humiliation. But Hapley’s triumph curdles into torment when a strange moth begins to appear in his study… a moth no one else can see. Is it the ghost of his rival returned for revenge, or the unraveling of a fevered mind?

Wells weaves a story of scientific excess into a high-speed thriller. Montgomery, a brilliant but twisted biologist, is delivering exotic animals to his private island when he rescues a shipwrecked man. An act of compassion, or another addition to his collection?

Chi mai potrebbe credere alla storia raccontata da Edward Prendick? Scampato a un naufragio nelle acque del Pacifico, sarebbe sbarcato su un'isola vulcanica abitata da esseri singolari e spaventosi, a metà tra uomini e bestie. L'unica presenza umana sull'isola sarebbe stata quella del dottor Moreau, uno scienziato specializzato in perversi esperimenti di vivisezione. Solo che le cose sarebbero sfuggite al suo controllo e gli uomini-bestia avrebbero cominciato a maturare una propria coscienza fino a ribellarsi al loro creatore.

When the village is besieged by strange thefts by an uncatchable thief, the clues might lie with the odd-acting stranger. Revealing his incredible secret, he has turned himself invisible, Griffin escapes and seeks those whom he might suborn into aiding him. Driven to darkness by his inability to make himself visible again, Griffin decides to use his misfortune to terrorise others. Greeted with fear and suspicion and betrayed by those around him, Griffin is determined to show just how dangerous an unseen enemy can be.

Embark on a mind-bending journey through time with H.G. Wells' classic, The Time Machine. Witness the gripping tale of an intrepid inventor who catapults himself into the distant future, encountering bizarre civilization and the enigmatic Morlocks. A timeless exploration of temporal paradoxes and the boundless mysteries of the fourth dimension.

In a world where the extraordinary meets the ordinary, immerse yourself in H.G. Wells' captivating short story "Aepyornis Island," narrated by the talented Mike Vendetti. Join us on a journey to an uninhabited atoll with a man who hatches an Aepyornis egg from an extinct bird that will forever alter his life. As he watches the egg hatch and a long-extinct Aepyornis emerges, his excitement knows no bounds. But as the creature grows, so does his sense of wonder and concern. Will his fourteen-foot-tall companion remain his friend?

Bert Smallways, a “kind of bicycle engineer,” is creatively trying to avoid bankruptcy when he meets by chance a certain Mr. Butteridge—the inventor of a new form of aircraft. Butteridge, Bert discovers, has plans to sell his invention either to British Government—or to the Germans, if the British won’t have it. When one of Butteridge’s aircrafts is shot down while Bert is aboard, Bert stumbles across a secret German plot to destroy the United States. As the story unfolds, Bert finds himself in an unexpected position, called upon to perform tasks he never could have foreseen.

This is a guidebook on world control and management, a program that Wells believed should be orchestrated (and would be successful) through what he called the "Open Conspiracy". This conspiracy is fully outlined in this work and is designed to be run by many separate organizations working together, as opposed to being run by just one group. Is this required for the world's most powerful people? Maybe it is. Or maybe it should be. Wells was a visionary and genius whose work should be paid attention to.

The book is, in Wells' words, a "scheme to thrust forward and establish a human control over the destinies of life and liberate it from its present dangers, uncertainties and miseries. It proposes that largely as the result of scientific progress, a common vision of a world 'politically, socially and economically unified' is emerging among educated and influential people, and that this can be the basis of 'a world revolution aiming at universal peace, welfare and happy activity' that can result in the establishment of a 'world commonwealth'."

Em A Estrela de H.G. Wells, uma estrela em rota de colisão com a Terra causa catástrofes naturais e caos global. Cientistas lutam para prever seu impacto enquanto a humanidade enfrenta a fragilidade de sua existência. O conto explora o poder avassalador do cosmos e a vulnerabilidade humana diante dele.

World Brain is a collection of essays and addresses by the English science fiction pioneer, social reformer, evolutionary biologist and historian H. G. Wells, dating from the period of 1936–1938. Throughout the book, Wells describes his vision of the World Brain: a new, free, synthetic, authoritative, permanent “World Encyclopedia” that could help world citizens make the best use of universal information resources and make the best contribution to world peace.

H. G. Wells was an insider with a British group tasked with the revival of their once great empire—this time in conjunction with Venetian Black Nobility Khazar bankers (not mentioned this explicitly in the book). Wells evidently grew less sympathetic to their aims as time went on, and published a version of the plans for public consumption in this and other books.

In the design of this book, three primary themes interlace and pursue and develop each other. There is first, that invention and science have completely altered the material environment of human life. Next, that the disruptive driving force of an excess of bored and unemployed young men, which must in some manner find relief, will probably shatter human life altogether under the new conditions. And thirdly, that the existing mental organization of our species is entirely insufficient to control the present situation, which nevertheless might, with an adequate effort, be controlled.

A scientist invents a machine that carries him into the future.

In truth the mastery of flying was the work of thousands of men—this man a suggestion and that an experiment, until at last only one vigorous intellectual effort was needed to finish the work. But the inexorable injustice of the popular mind has decided that of all these thousands, one man, and that a man who never flew, should be chosen as the discoverer, just as it has chosen to honor Watt as the discoverer of steam and Stephenson of the steam-engine.

Artie Kipps is destined at the tender age of fourteen for a life of drudgery in the drapery trade … until he unexpectedly inherits a fortune from a grandfather he never knew existed! Enter: A whisky-drinking actor and playwright who persuades Kipps to invest in his play! A down-on-their-luck mother and daughter who promptly see Kipps as a means to escape their (comparative) poverty! Plenty of patronizing, unthinking social snobs!

When a cylinder is discovered on Horsell Common, inquisitive locals are fascinated and excited. They approach with caution and a white flag only to be struck down by alien creatures with heat-rays that destroy everything in their path. It soon becomes very clear that the only options are to flee…or die. As the creatures march towards the capital, can the forces of Earth survive the onslaught?

This gripping tale takes place in the late 19th century and follows the protagonist, Mr. Hapley, a famous entomologist who becomes embroiled in an ongoing feud with Professor Pawkins a rival in his field. Hapley has a devasting retort to Professor Pawkins's most recent attack on him, but before he can deliver the ruinous blow, Pawkins dies leaving Haply ready for battle with no opponent. The physical Pawkins may be gone, but a mysterious moth that no one but Hapley can see or feel the presence of appears.

Wells had a keen interest in the political and social issues of his day, one of the most significant of which was the outbreak of the First World War. This book, written in 1916, presents the story of Mr Britling, a political commentator, living in comfortable security in his country estate at...