Time Travel Stories: A Collection of Sci-Fi Classics (Nook edition, includes HG Wells, H Beam Piper, Mark Twain, Ayn Rand, Frederik Pohl, Andre Norton and Philip K Dick)

by H. G. Wells, H Beam Piper, Mark Twain, Ayn Rand

Overview

All formatting issues have been corrected as of June 16, 2011.

This collection of time travel stories will include 32 different stories. Some of them will be well-known novels. Some are lesser-known short stories. The breakdown is half novels, half short stories or novellas.

The following are all included:

Anthem by Ayn Rand
Benefactor by George H Smith
The Big Time by Fritz Lieber
The British Barbarians by Grant Allen
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
The Day of the Boomer Dukes by Frederik Pohl
The Defiant Agents by Andre Norton
A Dream of John Ball by William Morris
Flight from Tomorrow by H Beam Piper
Genesis by H Beam Piper
Gun for Hire by Mack Reynolds
He Walked Around the Horses by H Beam Piper
Key out of Time by Andre Norton
Last Enemy by H Beam Piper
Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy
The Man from Time by Frank Belknap Long
The Man Who Saw the Future by Edmond Hamilton
My Shipmate Columbus by Stephen Wilder
News from Nowhere by William Morris
The Panchronicon by Harold Steele Mackaye
Police Operation by H Beam Piper
Project Mastodon by Clifford D Simak
Remember the Alamo! by RF Fehrenbach
The Skull by Philip K Dick
The Sleeper Awakes by HG Wells
Time and Time Again by H Beam Piper
Time Crime by H Beam Piper
Time Machine by HG Wells
Time Traders by Andre Norton
Unborn Tomorrow by Mack Reynolds
When the Sleeper Wakes by HG Wells
The Winds of Time by James H Schmitz

Product Details

BN ID:	2940012226938
Publisher:	Milsap Publishers
Publication date:	02/20/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Social philosopher, utopian, novelist, and "father" of science fiction and science fantasy, Herbert George Wells was born on September 21, 1866, in Bromley, Kent. His father was a poor businessman, and young Bertie's mother had to work as a lady's maid. Living "below stairs" with his mother at an estate called Uppark, Bertie would sneak into the grand library to read Plato, Swift, and Voltaire, authors who deeply influenced his later works. He shoed literary and artistic talent in his early stories and paintings, but the family had limited means, and when he was fourteen years old, Bertie was sent as an apprentice to a dealer in cloth and dry goods, work he disliked.

He held jobs in other trades before winning a scholarship to study biology at the Normal School of Science in London. The eminent biologist T. H. Huxley, a friend and proponent of Darwin, was his teacher; about him Wells later said, "I believed then he was the greatest man I was ever likely to meet." Under Huxley's influence, Wells learned the science that would inspire many of his creative works and cultivated the skepticism about the likelihood of human progress that would infuse his writing.

Teaching, textbook writing, and journalism occupied Wells until 1895, when he made his literary debut with the now-legendary novel The Time Machine, which was followed before the end of the century by The Island of Dr. Moreau, The Invisible Man, and The War of the Worlds, books that established him as a major writer. Fiercely critical of Victorian mores, he published voluminously, in fiction and nonfiction, on the subject of politics and social philosophy. Biological evolution does not ensure moral progress, as Wells would repeat throughout his life, during which he witnessed two world wars and the debasement of science for military and political ends.

In addition to social commentary presented in the guise of science fiction, Wells authored comic novels like Love and Mrs. Lewisham, Kipps, and The History of Mister Polly that are Dickensian in their scope and feeling, and a feminist novel, Ann Veronica. He wrote specific social commentary in The New Machiavelli, an attack on the socialist Fabian Society, which he had joined and then rejected, and literary parody (of Henry James) in Boon. He wrote textbooks of biology, and his massive The Outline of History was a major international bestseller.

By the time Wells reached middle age, he was admired around the world, and he used his fame to promote his utopian vision, warning that the future promised "Knowledge or extinction." He met with such preeminent political figures as Lenin, Roosevelt, and Stalin, and continued to publish, travel, and educate during his final years. Herbert George Wells died in London on August 13, 1946.

Author biography from the Barnes & Noble Classics edition of The War of the Worlds.

Date of Birth:

September 21, 1866

Date of Death:

August 13, 1946

Place of Birth:

Bromley, Kent, England

Place of Death:

London, England

Education:

Normal School of Science, London, England