A „father of science fiction“ – along with Jules Verne and Hugo Gernsback, prolific writer, social critic, a futurist who foresaw airplanes, tanks, space travel, even satellite TV and nuclear weapons: Herbert George Wells (September 21st 1866 – August 13th 1946) is up to this day one of the most read science fiction authors. He also was opposed against the Nazis right from the beginning which got him banned in Germany and Austria until 1945. His popular science fiction novella „The Time Machine“ (1895) reflects Wells‘ own socialist views when having a Victorian Englishman travel into the future only to find out that humankind has evolved into two species, the leasured classes of the peaceful yet helpless Eloi, and the working classes of the brutal, light-fearing Morlocks. Only in this future the working classes are literally feeding on the leasured classes, having the Morlocks eat the Eloi. As outspoken socialist and pacifist, H. G. Wells, often describing lower-middle-class life, is a worthy successor to the great Charles Dickens. With this miniature edition you get the unabbreviated novella „The Time Machine“ for your miniature book library, and H. G. Wells should not be missing in any decent library!
38 x 53 mm
(1.5 x 2 inch)
