The Country of the Blind and other Selected Stories (Penguin Classics)

by Andy Sawyer (Editor), Andy Sawyer (Editor), Neil Gaiman (Introduction), H. G. Wells (Author), Patrick Parrinder (Editor)

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  Illustrated
  2007

  $14.03

  Herbert George Wells was perhaps best known as the author of such classic works of science fiction as The Time Machine and War of the Worlds . But it was in his short stories, written when he was a young man embarking on a literary career, that he first explored the enormous potential of the scientific discoveries of the day. He described his stories as a miscellany of inventions, yet his enthusiasm for science was tempered by an awareness of its horrifying destructive powers and the threat it could pose to the human race. A consummate storyteller, he made fantastic creatures and machines entirely believable; and, by placing ordinary men and women in extraordinary situations, he explored, with humor, what it means to be alive in a century of rapid scientific progress.