H.G Wells
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
H.G. Wells' "scientific romance," published first in serial form and then as a book in 1898, attained perhaps its greatest fame in another form, the infamous realistic 1939 radio broadcast "Invasion from Mars" by Orson Welles. It was also made into an early 1950s science fiction adventure movie. Stover (emeritus, Illinois Institute of Technology) describes Wells' story as "a prophecy of startling originality foreseeing the coming of totalitarianism...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
H.G. Wells's 1894 novel (his first) describes the adventures of his hero, the time-traveler, mostly in the year A.D. 802,701, when he encounters a class-ridden battle between the decadent Eloi and the primitive Morlocks. This multi-voiced presentation works well, especially in the opening and closing scenes when the hero displays his time apparatus to his skeptical friends. Michael York, as the time-traveler, nicely evokes the wonder of encountering...
Author
Publisher
Airmont
Pub. Date
c1965
Language
English
Description
This tells of two biologists who discover a special food which will change the rate of growth, so that instead of proceeding in fits and starts-that is, in short spurts of growth followed by periods of quiescence, the way things usually work in nature-the rate of growth would be steady and constant.
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