Sammelband mit fünf Werken

· Der Diktator

· Menschen, Göttern gleich

· Mr. Blettsworthy auf der Insel Rampole

· Einstweilen

· Das Kristall-Ei (Erzählungen)

H. G. Wells - Gesammelte Werke 2

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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

Denne klassiske science fiction-roman er for længst faktuelt antikveret, men kan stadig nydes for hyggens og den elementære spændings skyld. Den bringes her i den danske førsteudgave fra 1912, der med sit let antikverede sprog bidrager til indholdets særlige stemning og atmosfære. Til atmosfæren bidrager også Henrique Alvim Corrêas illustrationer, der første gang optrådte i den belgiske udgave fra1906. Welles sagde selv senere om disse illustrationer: "Alvim Corrêa gjorde mere for mit arbejde med sin pensel end jeg med min pen."

Klodernes Kamp - Illustreret af Henrique Alvim Corrêa

On the Night of the Strange Bird, many people at Sidderton (and some nearer) saw a Glare on the Sidderford moor. But no one in Sidderford saw it, for most of Sidderford was abed.

All day the wind had been rising, so that the larks on the moor chirruped fitfully near the ground, or rose only to be driven like leaves before the wind. The sun set in a bloody welter of clouds, and the moon was hidden. The glare, they say, was golden like a beam shining out of the sky, not a uniform blaze, but broken all over by curving flashes like the waving of swords. It lasted but a moment and left the night dark and obscure. There were letters about it in Nature, and a rough drawing that no one thought very like. (You may see it for yourself-the drawing that was unlike the glare-on page 42 of Vol. cclx. of that publication.)

None in Sidderford saw the light, but Annie, Hooker Durgan's wife, was lying awake, and she saw the reflection of it-a flickering tongue of gold-dancing on the wall.

The Wonderful Visit

Alors qu?il a décidé de prendre de la distance avec son travail et sa famille qui, tous deux, l?ennuie profondément, Mr Barnstaple, suite à un accident de la route, se trouve projeté dans un  parallèle U: topia, Terre jumelle de la nôtre, mais 3 000 ans dans le futur?  Il y découvre une utopie sociale, politique et scientifique en équilibre avec la nature à laquelle il trouve toutes les qualités d?une société idéale. Malheureusement, ce n?est pas le cas de tous les compagnons qui ont subi le même sort que lui et qui refusent obstinément de s?y adapter, tentant même de la remodeler au gré de leurs préjugés tout droits issus de l?ancien monde?
Bien qu?occulté par des textes plus célèbres d?H. G. Wells,D es Hommes comme des Dieux (Men like Gods), publié en 1923, reste un des meilleurs romans sur l?utopie sociale qui a toujours fasciné l?auteur mais aussi, et peut-être surtout, une fantastique vision prophétique sur l'avenir de nos sociétés malades?

Des hommes comme des dieux

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.

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

The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells, first serialized in 1897 by Pearson's Magazine in the UK and by Cosmopolitan magazine in the US. 

Written between 1895 and 1897, it is one of the earliest stories to detail a conflict between mankind and an extraterrestrial race.

(from wikipedia.org)

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