Tales of space and time (1899)
Tales of space and time is a 1899 english science fiction book written by H. G. Wells.
Five early H. G. Wells stories, written in 1897 and 1898 and gathered in 1899, that range across deep time and cosmic distance. The Crystal Egg opens a window onto Mars from a dusty London shop. The Star watches a wandering body cross the sky toward Earth. A Story of the Stone Age reaches back to primitive humanity, while A Story of the Days To Come imagines a regimented mechanical future. The Man Who Could Work Miracles asks what an ordinary man does with sudden, absolute power. Compact, ambitious sketches from the writer who helped invent the form.
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What is Tales of space and time about?
Five early H. G. Wells stories, written in 1897 and 1898 and gathered in 1899, that range across deep time and cosmic distance. The Crystal Egg opens a window onto Mars from a dusty London shop. The Star watches a wandering body cross the sky toward Earth. A Story of the Stone Age reaches back to primitive humanity, while A Story of the Days To Come imagines a regimented mechanical future. The Man Who Could Work Miracles asks what an ordinary man does with sudden, absolute power. Compact, ambitious sketches from the writer who helped invent the form.
When was Tales of space and time published?
Tales of space and time was published in 1899.
Who made Tales of space and time?
Tales of space and time was written by H. G. Wells.
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H. G. Wells wrote the template so much later science fiction runs on. War of the Worlds carries his invasion vision to the screen, and Interstellar chases the same awe at cosmic scale and time. Osamu Tezuka's Phoenix spans eons with a similar reach across past and far future, while the series Silo builds a rigid, mechanical tomorrow that echoes A Story of the Days To Come.
Foundational science fiction about first contact and the cosmos
Wells peers at Mars through a crystal egg and tracks a killer star crossing the sky. These carry that early sci-fi wonder into film, from his own Martian invasion to interstellar rescue, a stranded astronaut's first contact and a reality that is not what it seems. Big ideas about our place in a vast, indifferent universe.
Regimented futures and worlds gone wrong
A Story of the Days To Come imagines a cold, mechanical future, and Wells was among the first to warn where progress might lead. These dystopias extend that vision, trapping people in controlled societies, buried silos and ruined tomorrows where survival means resisting the system. Bleak speculation about what the days to come could hold.
Science fiction imagined in manga and comics
Wells helped invent the science-fiction short, and the form thrives on the drawn page. These landmark manga and comics push his questions further, into cyborg minds, a galactic train, powered armor and a doomsday cult, proving speculative fiction reads just as boldly in panels as in prose.
Concept albums that build whole science-fiction worlds
Wells packed cosmic scope into compact tales, and these records do something similar in sound. Each builds a science-fiction world across a single album, from a dystopian rap odyssey and a space-rock migration to a genetic-engineering opera and restless electronic futures. Music for anyone who likes their speculative fiction set to a beat.