Happy Birthday H.G. Wells
tor.com 9/24/2009 — It’s H.G. Wells ’s one hundred and forty-third birthday, and Google has chosen to celebrate it with a lovely Google-Doodle. (I liked it so much I woke my husband to come and look at it.) It’s no exaggeration to say that Wells invented ...

The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
jameswharris.wordpress.com 6/25/2009 — The Time Machine is the big bang origin of the science fiction universe.  I’ve read The Time Machine a couple times before in my life, but I never noticed that it was the origin of all science fiction before, but then I haven’t ...

LibriVox: The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
sffaudio.com 6/15/2009 — The prospect of listening to an amateur narration of an audiobook may not get your shaft cranking but perhaps that’s because you haven’t yet found the right one. Here’s an older LibriVox recording, one that’s made many a listener happy. Alex Foster’s English ...

The World Set Free by H G Wells
librivox.org 7/27/2009 — LibriVox recordings are Public Domain in the USA. If you are not in the USA, please verify the copyright status of these works in your own country before downloading, otherwise you may be violating copyright laws. If you have troubles downloading ...

Tales of Mystery and Imagination; or, What is the first SF novel?
johncwright.livejournal.com 9/6/2009 — What is the first Science Fiction novel? This question was raised in an interesting article by one Jim Harris at Auxiliary Memory (found here http://jameswharris.wordpress.com/2009/06/25/the-time-machine-by-h-g-wells/ ) where he argues that THE TIME ...

Curse You, Neil Armstrong!
conceptualfiction.com 7/15/2009 — Six Great Moon Novels From the Earth to the Moon (1865) by Jules Verne Is Jules Verne the father of science fiction? Too bad they don’t have a DNA test to settle this paternity case. With an offspring so success- ful, there is no shortage of ...

LibriVox: Short Science Fiction Collection Vol. 010
sffaudio.com 5/20/2009 — Here’s the recently released Short Science Fiction Collection Vol. 010 from LibriVox! I had a chance to listen to most of the stories and I’ve highlighted a few: 1. As Long As You Wish , a cool kind of time travel tale, seems at first to have some volume problems, but it ...

LibriVox: Short Science Fiction Collection Vol. 015
sffaudio.com 6/4/2009 — H.G. Wells has two tales in this collection. The New Accelerator features a fascinating depiction of the invention of what sounds a lot like an amphetamine (though technically they had already been invented a dozen years earlier). It will also remind Star Trek fans of the episode called Wink ...

The Cold War in Science Fiction [History]
io9.com 15 days ago — This week marks the twenty-year anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, an event which helped end the Cold War. It also ushered in the end of an era in science fiction, too. The Cold War affected science fiction during some of its most ...

Short Story Club: “The Puma”
vectoreditors.wordpress.com 9/20/2009 — Theodora Goss’s story is here . We start our round-up of comment with Kimberley Lundstrom for The Fix : “The Puma” by Theodora Goss is an interesting take on H.G. Wells’ classic The Island of Dr. Moreau . In Goss’ version, Edward ...