Als Graham erwacht, hat er 203 Jahre lang geschlafen. Er ist der Hauptcharakter in H. G. Wells »Wenn der Schläfer erwacht« . Wahrscheinlich ist Graham 1899 eingeschlafen, denn das ist das letzte Jahr in das seine Erinnerung zurückreicht. Der Roman spielt folglich um das Jahr 2100. Graham ist ohne sein Zutun zum Herrscher der Welt geworden. Einst hatten ihm zwei Männer ihr Vermögen vermacht, das von einem Vermögensverwalter so geschickt gemehrt wurde, dass ihm nun weite Teile der Erde gehören. Die Geschicke der Welt werden von einigen wenigen Menschen gesteuert; die anderen leben in sklavenähnlichen Verhältnissen.

H. G. Wells Zukunftsvision übt recht deutliche Kritik an den gesellschaftlichen Zuständen des frühindustriellen Englands, wie Wells es kannte. Manche seiner düsteren Prognosen für das Jahr 2100 scheint die Menschheit gebannt zu haben, bei anderen ist Wells Vorhersage erschreckend aktuell.

Der Bestseller-Autor Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) war einer der Begründer des modernen Science Fiction-Romans. Mit seinen wissenschaftlich fundierten Romanen wurde er einer der erfolgreichsten englischen Schriftsteller.

Wenn der Schläfer erwacht - Vollständige deutsche Ausgabe

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Vladimir Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as the first and founding head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1924 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924. Under his administration, Russia, and later the Soviet Union, became a one-party socialist state governed by the Communist Party. Ideologically a Marxist, his developments to the ideology are called Leninism.

Russia in the Shadows is a book by H. G. Wells published early in 1921, which includes a series of articles previously printed in The Sunday Express in connection with Wells's second visit to Russia (after a previous trip in January 1914 to St. Petersburg and Moscow) in September and October 1920.

During his visit to Russia he visited his old friend Maxim Gorky, whom he had first met in 1906 on a trip to the United States, and who arranged Wells's meeting with Lenin.

In a chapter (The Dreamer in the Kremlin) devoted to an interview with Lenin at the Kremlin Wells describes the leader and founder of Russian communism. Wells portrays Lenin as a pragmatic leader who "has recently stripped off the last pretence that the Russian revolution is anything more than the inauguration of an age of limitless experiment."

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Imperialism: The Final Stage of Capitalism 

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Decree on Abolishment of Capital Punishment

Decree on Transfer of Power to the Soviets

Decree on Establishment of the Workers' and Peasants' Government

Decree on Elections for the Constituent Assembly

Decree on Suppression of Hostile Newspapers

Decree on Transfer of Food Control to Municipalities

Decree on an Eight-Hour Working Day

Decree on the Right to Issue Laws

Resolution on the Right of Sovnarkom to Issue Decrees

Decree on Social Insurance

Declaration of the Rights of the People of Russia

Decree on Organization of Volost Land Committees

Decree on Transfer of Power and the Means of Production to the Toilers

Decree Proclaiming Advertising a State Monopoly

Decree Abolishing Classes and Civil Ranks

Decree on Workers' Control

Resolution on Relation of the Central Executive Committee to the Sovnarkom

Decree on the Right to Call for Re-Elections

Decree on Establishment of the Extraordinary Commission to Fight Counter-Revolution

V. I. Lenin Note To F. E. Dzerzhinsky with a Draft of A Decree On Fighting Counter-Revolutionaries And Saboteurs

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 "For a time I believed that mankind had been swept out of existence, and that I stood there alone, the last man left alive."

 When a strange, meteor-like object lands in the heart of England, the inhabitants of Earth find themselves victims of a terrible attack. A ruthless race of Martians, armed with heat rays and poisonous smoke, is intent on destroying everything that stands in its way. As the unnamed hero struggles to find his way across decimated wastelands, the fate of the planet hangs in the balance .

The War of the Worlds

When an army of invading Martians lands in England, panic and terror seize the population. As the aliens traverse the country in huge three-legged machines, incinerating all in their path with a heat ray and spreading noxious toxic gases, the people of the Earth must come to terms with the prospect of the end of human civilization and the beginning of Martian rule.

Inspiring films, radio dramas, comic-book adaptations, television series and sequels, The War of the Worlds is a prototypical work of science fiction which has influenced every alien story that has come since, and is unsurpassed in its ability to thrill, well over a century since it was first published.

Voici les 11 nouvelles fantastiques les plus célèbres d'HG Wells. Herbert George Wells est un écrivain britannique considéré comme le père de la science-fiction contemporaine. Cette nouvelle est issue d'un recueil d'histoires qui nous embarquent dans la quatrième dimension fantastique. L'Étoile, le passage d'une étoile sème comme un vent de panique. Dans l'abîme, une descente au fond de l'océan dans une sphère à la découverte d'êtres fantastiques. L'ouf de cristal, dans un magasin d'antiquités, se trouve un étrange ouf en cristal. Le nouvel accélérateur, le professeur Gibberne, conçoit un nouvel accélérateur, une drogue sorte de stimulant nerveux. L'histoire de Plattner, un professeur lors d'une expérience chimique provoque une explosion et disparaît, et se retrouve dans la Quatrième Dimension... Le corps volé, M. Bessel, par transmission de pensées, décide donc avec un ami de sortir de son corps et pendant ce temps-là, son propre corps est volé par un esprit... Sous le bistouri, un homme médite sur la mort, au moment d'une opération par deux chirurgiens, et se retrouve projeté dans l'espace et survole tout l'univers. Un rêve d'Armageddon, rêves, troubles cérébraux, vivre dans l'avenir. Un étrange phénomène, intercommunications avec l'inconnu, hallucinations. La porte dans le mur, à cinq ans, être hanté par la vision d'un jardin enchanté. Mr Skelmersdale au pays des fées, dans cette nouvelle, le héros est transporté au pays des fées, où l'une des fées tombe amoureuse de lui.

11 nouvelles fantastiques - HG Wells

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In truth the mastery of flying was the work of thousands of men-this man a suggestion and that an experiment, until at last only one vigorous intellectual effort was needed to finish the work. But the inexorable injustice of the popular mind has decided that of all these thousands, one man, and that a man who never flew, should be chosen as the discoverer, just as it has chosen to honour Watt as the discoverer of steam and Stephenson of the steam-engine. And surely of all honoured names none is so grotesquely and tragically honoured as poor Filmer's, the timid, intellectual creature who solved the problem over which the world had hung perplexed and a little fearful for so many generations, the man who pressed the button that has changed peace and warfare and well-nigh every condition of human life and happiness. Never has that recurring wonder of the littleness of the scientific man in the face of the greatness of his science found such an amazing exemplification. Much concerning Filmer is, and must remain, profoundly obscure-Filmers attract no Boswells-but the essential facts and the concluding scene are clear enough, and there are letters, and notes, and casual allusions to piece the whole together. And this is the story one makes, putting this thing with that, of Filmer's life and death.

Twelve Stories and a Dream

Shooting stars tear across the night sky, then a gigantic artificial cylinder descends from Mars to land near London. Inquisitive locals gather round, only to be struck down by a murderous Heat-Ray. Giant destructive machines disgorge from the cylinder, destroying everything in their path on a merciless march towards the capital. Can humanity survive this Martian onslaught? A gripping adventure written in semi-documentary style, The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells is the seminal man versus machine adventure which has inspired countless science fiction stories and novels. This Macmillan Collector's Library edition of The War of the Worlds contains an introduction by author James P. Blaylock. Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.

H.-G.  Wells (1866-1946) 
 
"Personne n'aurait cru, dans les dernières années du XIXe siècle, que les choses humaines fussent observées, de la façon la plus pénétrante et la plus attentive, par des intelligences supérieures aux intelligences humaines et cependant mortelles comme elles ; que, tandis que les hommes s'absorbaient dans leurs occupations, ils étaient examinés et étudiés d'aussi près peut-être qu'un savant peut étudier avec un microscope les créatures transitoires qui pullulent et se multiplient dans une goutte d'eau. Avec une suffisance infinie, les hommes allaient de-ci de-là par le monde, vaquant à leurs petites affaires, dans la sereine sécurité de leur empire sur la matière. Il est possible que, sous le microscope, les infusoires fassent de même. Personne ne donnait une pensée aux mondes plus anciens de l'espace comme sources de danger pour l'existence terrestre, ni ne songeait seulement à eux pour écarter l'idée de vie à leur surface comme impossible ou improbable. Il est curieux de se rappeler maintenant les habitudes mentales de ces jours lointains. Tout au plus les habitants de la Terre s'imaginaient-ils qu'il pouvait y avoir sur la planète Mars des êtres probablement inférieurs à eux, et disposés à faire bon accueil à une expédition missionnaire. Cependant, par-delà le gouffre de l'espace, des esprits qui sont à nos esprits ce que les nôtres sont à ceux des bêtes qui périssent, des intellects vastes, calmes et impitoyables, considéraient cette terre avec des yeux envieux, dressaient lentement et sûrement leurs plans pour la conquête de notre monde. Et dans les premières années du XXe siècle vint la grande désillusion." 
 
A la fin du XIXe siècle, plusieurs astronomes observent, pendant une dizaine de nuits, des curieux événements sur la planète Mars : des éclairs mais aussi des explosions de gaz. Les phénomènes stoppent mais des météores, en provenance de ladite planète, s'écrasent sur la Terre... de bien étranges météores de forme cylindrique...

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