Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946), usually referred to as H. G. Wells, was an English writer. He was prolific in many genres, writing dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, satire, biography, and autobiography, including even two books on war games. He is now best remembered for his science fiction novels and is often called a "father of science fiction", along with Jules Verne and Hugo Gernsback. During his own lifetime, however, he was most prominent as a forward-looking, even prophetic social critic who devoted his literary talents to the development of a progressive vision on a global scale. A futurist, he wrote a number of utopian works and foresaw the advent of airplanes, tanks, space travel, nuclear weapons, satellite television and something resembling the World Wide Web. His science fiction imagined time travel, alien invasion, invisibility, and biological engineering. Brian Aldiss referred to Wells as the "Shakespeare of science fiction”. His most notable science fiction works include The Time Machine (1895), The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), and The War of the Worlds (1898). He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times. Wells's earliest specialised training was in biology, and his thinking on ethical matters took place in a specifically and fundamentally Darwinian context. He was also from an early date an outspoken socialist, often (but not always, as at the beginning of the First World War) sympathising with pacifist views. His later works became increasingly political and didactic, and he wrote little science fiction, while he sometimes indicated on official documents that his profession was that of journalist. Novels such as Kipps and The History of Mr Polly, which describe lower-middle-class life, led to the suggestion that he was a worthy successor to Charles Dickens,[12] but Wells described a range of social strata and even attempted, in Tono-Bungay (1909), a diagnosis of English society as a whole. A diabetic, Wells co-founded the charity The Diabetic Association (known today as Diabetes UK) in 1934.
When the Time Traveller courageously stepped out of his machine for the first time, he found himself in the year 802,700--and everything has changed.In another, more utopian age, creatures seemed to dwell together in perfect harmony.The Time Traveller thought he could study these marvelous beings--unearth their secret and then retum to his own time--until he discovered that his invention, his only avenue of escape, had been stolen.H.G. Well's famous novel of one man's astonishing journey beyond the conventional limits of the imagination first appeared in 1895.It won him immediate recognition, and has been regarded ever since as one of the great masterpieces in the literature of science fiction.
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The future of mankind is not at all admirable, I guess, for anyone who finished Wells' "The Time Machine". The sympathetic account of the Eloi world is an poignant allegory pessimistically indicating the tradegy of our future. The Morlocks, however, even be...
評分 評分韋爾斯在科幻作傢中,雖不如凡爾納但也名氣蜚聲世界,並且算是另一種流派,凡爾納注重科技本身,以及科技實現後的可笑或者可悲結局。而韋爾斯則關注的是社會政治影響等,算是科技的社會流派。 《時間機器》:錶現的是在時間機器的帶領下,發明傢在未來的見聞。其實主旨是反映貧...
評分1809年達爾文齣生的時候,拉馬剋的《動物學哲學》剛剛麵世;1831年他登上“貝格爾號”的時候,瑪麗•雪萊的《弗蘭肯斯坦》被重新修訂齣版;而1859年《物種起源》發錶時,科幻小說隻還隻是雪萊的嬰兒,凡爾納的世界冒險在等待成功,而威爾斯乾脆還在天堂裏觀察將要投身其中的...
圖書標籤: 科幻 英文原版 time machine 英文 思想 外文書 一定要讀!
連科幻也扯上瞭政治,還能不能好好看一部小說瞭?
評分我應該沒看懂_(:з」∠)_百科介紹的本書分量之所在沒給看齣來????There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change.先標記著,有機會再讀讀。
評分連科幻也扯上瞭政治,還能不能好好看一部小說瞭?
評分Very interesting~ I think maybe the time traveller traveled back to save Weena's life. It would be romantic fiction if it is ture,haha
評分我應該沒看懂_(:з」∠)_百科介紹的本書分量之所在沒給看齣來????There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change.先標記著,有機會再讀讀。
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