HG Wells
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Editorial: Literature can be surprisingly accurate in predicting what lies ahead
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In a surprisingly class-conscious stage adaptation of the HG Wells-inspired musical from the Downton Abbey creator on Sky, Charlie Stemp radiates kindly innocence
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Delivering this year’s HG Wells lecture, the author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World celebrates the late science fiction author’s dedication to fighting inequality
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From Oscar Wilde to Dorothy Parker and Sherman Alexie, these stories capture enchantments that are often camouflaged in ordinary life
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16 April 1929: The writer read from The Common Sense of World Peace, in which he warns of the dangers of ‘self-centred imperialism’
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Continuing our series of writers recommending maligned films is a defense of the troubled 1996 adaptation of the HG Wells cautionary tale
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The new coin is inscribed: ‘Good books are warehouses of ideas’ – but digging reveals the quote to be both wrong and expressing a different sentiment
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Readers say coin commemorating the author of The War of the Worlds gives his alien tripod a fourth leg and The Invisible Man the wrong kind of hat
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Away from Disney’s candied revisions, these stories – from Hans Christian Andersen to Helen Dunmore – tell archetypal truths about women’s experience
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14 August 1946: The Time Machine was the first of Wells’ scientific romances with which he made a name and secured his position financially
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The tale of marauding Martians is familiar sci-fi, but it’s less well-known that the book and radio play both have Australian antecedents
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11 June 1895 The time traveller’s revelations are unlikely to excite regret on the part of his readers at having been born 802,000 years too soon
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In a series where writers make the case for a book they want you to try, author Adam Roberts champions what was once the world’s bestselling novel
The Invisible Man review – therapy and sound effects in HG Wells update
3 out of 5 stars.