War of the Worlds er en science fiction-roman udgivet i 1898 af H. G. Wells, der beskriver, hvordan England invaderes af rumvæsener fra Mars. Det er en af de bedst kendte beskrivelser af en fremmed invasion af Jorden. Den danske oversættelse har titlen "Klodernes kamp".

Bogen og dens historie har givet grobund til en lang række nye bøger, film og endda som et yderst realistisk radiospil af Orson Welles, udsendt i 1938; radiospillets form af direkte nyhedsreportage fik nogle lyttere til at gå i panik.

Klodernes Kamp

Stong-willed, reckless and fiercely independent, Ann Veronica Stanley is determined to be a 'Person', to work, love and, above all, to live. Walking away from her stifling father and the social conventions of her time, she leaves drab suburbia for Edwardian London and encounters an unknown world of suffragettes, Fabians and free love. But it is only when she meets the charismatic Capes that she truly confronts the meaning of her new found freedom. 
Ann Veronica caused a sensation, damned in the press and preached against from the pulpits when it was first published in 1909 due to Wells' groundbreaking treatment of female sexuality.

Ann Veronica

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."

Vladimir Lenin:

State and Revolution

What Is to Be Done?, 

Imperialism: The Final Stage of Capitalism 

The State and Revolution

The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism

Vladimir Lenin To the Citizens of Russia!

Vladimir Lenin To Workers, Soldiers, and Peasants!

Report on Peace

Report on Land

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

H. G. Wells:

The Dreamer in the Kremlin by H. G. Wells

25+ Collected Works of Vladimir Lenin - The Dreamer in the Kremlin, State and Revolution, What Is to Be Done?, Imperialism: The Final Stage of Capitalism and others

A Victorian scientist develops a time machine and travels to the year 802,171 AD. There he finds the meek, child-like Eloi who live in fear of the underground-dwelling Morlocks. When his time machine goes missing, the Traveller faces a fight to enter the Morlocks' domain and return to his own time.
THE TIME MACHINE remains one of the cornerstones of science-fiction literature and has proved hugely influential.

The Time Machine

The stranger came early in February, one wintry day, through a biting wind and a driving snow, the last snowfall of the year, over the down, walking from Bramblehurst railway station, and carrying a little black portmanteau in his thickly gloved hand. He was wrapped up from head to foot, and the brim of his soft felt hat hid every inch of his face but the shiny tip of his nose; the snow had piled itself against his shoulders and chest, and added a white crest to the burden he carried. He staggered into the "Coach and Horses" more dead than alive, and flung his portmanteau down. "A fire, " he cried, "in the name of human charity! A room and a fire!" He stamped and shook the snow from off himself in the bar, and followed Mrs. Hall into her guest parlour to strike his bargain. And with that much introduction, that and a couple of sovereigns flung upon the table, he took up his quarters in the inn.

The Invisible Man

H. - G. Wells (1866-1946) 

"En m'asseyant ici pour écrire, à l'ombre d'une treille, sous le ciel bleu de l'Italie méridionale, il me vient à l'esprit, avec une sorte de naïf étonnement, que ma participation aux stupéfiantes aventures de M. Cavor fut, en somme, le résultat du plus simple accident. La chose eût pu advenir à n'importe quel autre individu. Je tombai au milieu de tout cela à une époque où je me croyais à l'abri des plus infimes possibilités d'expériences troublantes. J'étais venu à Lympne parce que je m'étais imaginé que Lympne devait être le plus paisible endroit du monde. 

« Ici, au moins, m'étais-je dit, je trouverai le calme si nécessaire pour travailler. » 

Ce livre en est la conséquence, tant la Destinée se plaît à embrouiller les pauvres petits plans des hommes. 

Je puis, peut-être, dire ici que je venais alors de perdre de grosses sommes dans certaines entreprises malheureuses. Entouré maintenant de tout le confort de la richesse, j'éprouve un certain plaisir à faire cet aveu. Je veux même admettre encore que j'étais, jusqu'à un certain point, responsable de mes propres désastres. Il se peut que, pour diverses choses, je sois doué de quelque capacité, mais la conduite des affaires n'est certes pas de ce nombre. 

En ce temps-là j'étais jeune - je le suis encore, quant aux années - mais tout ce qui m'est arrivé depuis a effacé de mon esprit ce qu'il y restait de trop juvénile. Que j'en aie acquis quelque sagesse est une question plus douteuse... 

Il n'est pas nécessaire d'entrer dans le détail des spéculations qui me débarquèrent à Lympne, dans le comté de Kent." 

M. Bedford s'installe dans une petite ville calme pour écrire LE drame qui renflouera ses caisses. Il fait la connaissance d'un voisin très particulier dont le comportement est étrange : c'est le savant Cavor. Celui-ci tente de mettre au point un métal, la cavorite, qui lui permettra de circuler dans l'espace et pourquoi pas... aller dans la lune...

Les premiers hommes dans la lune

"I've had a most amazing time...."

So begins the Time Traveller's astonishing firsthand account of his journey 800, 000 years beyond his own era-and the story that launched H. G. Wells's successful career and earned him his reputation as the father of science fiction. With a speculative leap that still fires the imagination, Wells sends his brave explorer to face a future burdened with our greatest hopes...and our darkest fears. A pull of the Time Machine's lever propels him to the age of a slowly dying Earth. There he discovers two bizarre races-the ethereal Eloi and the subterranean Morlocks-who not only symbolize the duality of human nature, but offer a terrifying portrait of the men of tomorrow as well. Published in 1895, this masterpiece of invention captivated readers on the threshold of a new century. Thanks to Wells's expert storytelling and provocative insight, The Time Machine will continue to enthrall readers for generations to come.

The maid was a young woman of great natural calmness; she was accustomed to let in visitors who had this air of being annoyed and finding one umbrella too numerous for them. It mattered nothing to her that the gentleman was asking for Dr. Martineau as if he was asking for something with an unpleasant taste. Almost imperceptibly she relieved him of his umbrella and juggled his hat and coat on to a massive mahogany stand. "What name, Sir?" she asked, holding open the door of the consulting room.

"Hardy, " said the gentleman, and then yielding it reluctantly with its distasteful three-year-old honour, "Sir Richmond Hardy."

The Secret Places of the Heart

If you (presuming you are of the sex that does such things)-if you had gone into the Drapery Emporium-which is really only magnificent for shop-of Messrs. Antrobus & Co.-a perfectly fictitious "Co., " by the bye-of Putney, on the 14th of August, 1895, had turned to the right-hand side, where the blocks of white linen and piles of blankets rise up to the rail from which the pink and blue prints depend, you might have been served by the central figure of this story that is now beginning. He would have come forward, bowing and swaying, he would have extended two hands with largish knuckles and enormous cuffs over the counter, and he would have asked you, protruding a pointed chin and without the slightest anticipation of pleasure in his manner, what he might have the pleasure of showing you. Under certain circumstances-as, for instance, hats, baby linen, gloves, silks, lace, or curtains-he would simply have bowed politely, and with a drooping expression, and making a kind of circular sweep, invited you to "step this way, " and so led you beyond his ken; but under other and happier conditions, -huckaback, blankets, dimity, cretonne, linen, calico, are cases in point, -he would have requested you to take a seat, emphasising the hospitality by leaning over the counter and gripping a chair back in a spasmodic manner, and so proceeded to obtain, unfold, and exhibit his goods for your consideration. Under which happier circumstances you might-if of an observing turn of mind and not too much of a housewife to be inhuman-have given the central figure of this story less cursory attention.

Klodernes Kamp

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