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Author:H. G. Wells
Title:The Time Machine / The Island Of Dr. Moreau / The Invisible Man / The First Men In The Moon / The Food Of The Gods / In The Days Of The Comet / The War Of The Worlds
English Title:Seven Famous Novels
Publisher:  Book Club Associates
Country:UK
Date:1984
Format:Hardcover
Class Number:823.912
Genre:Science Fiction, Horror, Fantasy
Cat#:CN 6886
First Published:  1934
Rating:9.0  Rate
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Community: 2 Own
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Omnibus edition, complete and unabridged
Tenth Edition
Originally published as "Seven Famous Novels by H. G. Wells" and includes Wells' preface to that edition.

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Magic Marmalade
22nd Jul 2020
 Rated 9/10
I have this!

These Octopus books are great value, but tend to omit at least one of the key stories by any particular author you are after (My Hemmingway one lacks a couple of the big titles :(...

...But this has all the good Wells stuff in it you want.

What is striking about his stories is how my pre-conceived notions about how dated and quaint his Sci-fi / physics notions were actually even now have a surprising air of plausibility about them... even the patently daft ones... like going to the moon in a tin foil box to meet the ant people...

The physics is clearly duff, but his ideas and explanations are very well considered, and brilliantly explained, like the concept of how the physics of his time machine works... really conjures an image in the mind.

Just a shame it doesn't work that way really.... I think his stories deserve better physics in the real world.

(Maybe we could start a petition to get science changed to accommodate Wells! :)

Top volume, well worth geting, as it's great value.

((And still can't any reference to any bleedin' octopus))

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