"H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, the first story to speculate about the consequences of aliens (from Mars) with superior technology landing on earth, is one of the most influential science fiction books ever written. The novel is both a thrilling narrative and an elaboratio…
Contains biographical material on Wells as well as a chronology and a list of his works, but focuses on the criticism of Wells' science fiction. Includes a bibliography of works about Wells.
"This book investigates Wells's interest in cinema and related media technologies, by placing it back into the contemporary cultural and scientific contexts giving rise to them. Previous studies have concentrated on adaptations: this study accounts for the specifically (proto)ci…
