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Spanning the origins of the Earth to the outcome of the First World War, this is a brilliantly compelling account of the evolution of life and the development of the human race. Along the way, Wells considers such diverse subjects as the Neolithic era, the rise of...
Following the development of massive airships, naïve Londoner Bert Smallways becomes accidentally involved in a German plot to invade America by air and reduce New York to rubble. But although bombers devastate the city, they cannot overwhelm the country, and their...
A successful author and Liberal MP with a loving and benevolent wife, Richard Remington appears to be a man to envy. But underneath his superficial contentment, he is far from happy with either his marriage or the politics of his party. The New Machiavelli describes the...
Orphaned at an early age, raised by his aunt and uncle, and apprenticed for seven years to a draper, Artie Kipps is stunned to discover upon reading a newspaper advertisement that he is the grandson of a wealthy gentleman - and the inheritor of his fortune. Thrown...
Young, impoverished and ambitious, science student Mr Lewisham is locked in a struggle to further himself through academic achievement. But when his former sweetheart, Ethel Henderson, re-enters his life his strictly regimented existence is thrown into chaos by the...
When Dr Philip Raven, an intellectual working for the League of Nations, dies in 1930 he leaves behind a powerful legacy - an unpublished 'dream book'. Inspired by visions he has experienced for many years, it appears to be a book written far into the future: a history...
While walking in the Swiss Alps, two English travellers fall into a space-warp, and suddenly find themselves in another world. In many ways the same as our own - even down to the characters that inhabit it - this new planet is still somehow radically different, for the...
Twenty-one, passionate and headstrong, Ann Veronica Stanley is determined to live her own life. When her father forbids her from attending a fashionable Ball, she decides she has no choice but to leave her family home and make a fresh start in London. There, she finds a...
When penniless businessman Mr Bedford retreats to the Kent coast to write a play, he meets by chance the brilliant Dr Cavor, an absent-minded scientist on the brink of developing a material that blocks gravity. Cavor soon succeeds in his experiments, only to tell a...
Mr Polly is an ordinary middle-aged man who is tired of his wife's nagging and his dreary job as the owner of a regional gentleman's outfitters. Faced with the threat of bankruptcy, he concludes that the only way to escape his frustrating existence is by burning his...
A troubled insomniac in 1890s England falls suddenly into a sleep-like trance, from which he does not awake for over two hundred years. During his centuries of slumber, however, investments are made that make him the richest and most powerful man on Earth. But when he...
Adrift in a dinghy, Edward Prendick, the single survivor from the good ship Lady Vain, is rescued by a vessel carrying a profoundly unusual cargo - a menagerie of savage animals. Tended to recovery by their keeper Montgomery, who gives him dark medicine that tastes of...
Presented as a miraculous cure-all, Tono-Bungay is in fact nothing other than a pleasant-tasting liquid with no positive effects. Nonetheless, when the young George Ponderevo is employed by his Uncle Edward to help market this ineffective medicine, he finds his life...
Huit Chefs-d’Œuvre Classiques de Science-Fiction offre une plongée fascinante dans les premières œuvres de science-fiction, où l'imagination et l'anticipation technologique se mêlent pour créer des récits uniques. Cette collection met en lumière les thèmes pionniers du...
Deux scientifiques, Bensington et Redwood, mettent au point presque par hasard un nouvel aliment. Sa spécificité ? Il stimule considérablement la croissance de l’organisme. Quelle prometteuse invention ! Les problèmes commencent lorsque la Boumbouffe, comme la...
En 1896, un marchand de thé, M. Fison, découvre par hasard près du rivage une curieuse créature marine. Il sera le premier être humain à survivre, par miracle, à cet Haploteuthis ferox...Les prédateurs de la mer, comme les onze autres nouvelles étranges de ce recueil du...
Trois nouvelles de H.G. Wells qui mêlent suspense, visions d'effroi et curiosité scientifique. Trois nouvelles de science-fiction écrites entre 1896 et 1898. - " Les Pirates de la mer " Des poulpes géants sortent des profondeurs et s'attaquent aux humains. - " L'Étoile...
Qual es aquel estrangièr que se ven albergar a l’abitarèla del vilatge en plen ivèrn ? Per èsser original, es un original, que jamai quita pas la cambra e fa venir tota una parabastada de fiòlas e de botelhons. Lo sospièch ganha tota la comuna e las bartavèlas mosisson...
Inventive, dérangeante et incroyablement prophétique, La Destruction libératrice est un classique oublié qu'il est précieux de relire aujourd'hui pour sa pertinence et sa force prémonitoire intactes.Écrit en 1913, ce roman dépeint une planète terrassée par une guerre...
1894. Des astronomes sont témoins d'étranges activités à la surface de Mars, comme des éclairs ou des explosions de gaz incandescent. L'étonnant phénomène se répète pendant les dix nuits suivantes puis cesse. Des météores venant de la planète rouge se dirigent bientôt...
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