num_pages: 432
description: Ursula K. Le Guin’s selection of twenty-six stories showcases H. G. Wells’s genius and reintroduces readers to his singular talent for making the unbelievable seem utterly plausible. He envisioned a sky filled with airplanes before Orville Wright ever left the ground. He described the spectacle of space travel decades before men set foot on the moon. H. G. Wells was a visionary, a man of science with an enduring literary touch, and his originality and inventiveness are fully on display in this essential collection.Including these stories:“A Slip Under the Microscope”“The Remarkable Case of Davidson’s Eyes”“The Plattner Story”“Under the Knife”“The Crystal Egg”“The New Accelerator”“The Stolen Body”“The Argonauts of the Air”“In the Abyss”“The Star”“The Land Ironclads”“A Dream of Armageddon”“The Lord of the Dynamos”“The Valley of Spiders”“The Story of the Late Mr. Elvesham”“The Man Who Could Work Miracles”“The Magic Shop”“Mr. Skelmersdale in Fairyland”“The Door in the Wall”“The Presence by the Fire”“A Vision of Judgment”“The Story of the Last Trump”“The Wild Asses of the Devil”“Answer to Prayer”“The Queer Story of Brownlow’s Newspaper”“The Country of the Blind”
language: English
title: Selected Stories of H.G. Wells
titlecomplete: Selected Stories of H.G. Wells
genres: 20th Century, Short Stories, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Classics, Anthologies, Fiction
ratings_count: 103
publisher: Modern Library